The Pride of the Yankees

The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

  • 92% of critics liked it
    (24 reviews)

  • 88% of users liked it
    (6,530 ratings)

"It's box office poison," producer Samuel Goldwyn is said to have exclaimed when he heard the idea of filming the life story of fabled first baseman Lou Gehrig. "If people want baseball, they go to the ballpark!" The story begins before World War I, when young Lou Gehrig… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
Paul Gallico, Jo Swerling, Herman J. Mankiewicz
Genres
Documentary, Drama, Classics
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1942 Wide
MGM

Critic Reviews

  • Manny Farber, The New Republic

    Maté achieves exhilaration from his angle shooting and the feeling throughout out of a concave screen. Whatever feel of baseball this picture has is the result of his running camera.

  • , TIME Magazine

    The best part of Pride of the Yankees is its grade-A love story.

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    For baseball and non-baseball fan alike, this sentimental, romantic saga of the NY kid who rose to the baseball heights and later met such a tragic end is well worth seeing.

  • Bosley Crowther, New York Times

    As a simple, moving story with an ironic heart-tug at the end, it serves as a fitting memorial to the real Lou, who called himself the luckiest man alive.

  • Jeremy Conrad, IGN Movies

    Gary Cooper brings the Yankee legend to life with great honesty and emotion.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Bathsheba M


    You would think that just looking at Gary Cooper would be enough. But it wasn't enough to hide the fact that for a college guy he looked about 35 years old and his mother looked like his grandmother (even when he was 9)and Gary Cooper's beauty wasn't enough to hide the… More

  • Melvin W


    Best baseball movie of all time.

  • Universal D


    if his famous speech as lou gehrig don't make you cry like a lil baby you ain't human!

  • Matthew Y


    The tragic tale of Lou Gehrig has lived on in not only baseball but pop-culture lore and will continue to be one of the most heartbreaking true-stories ever told. With Sam Wood directing and starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright and even Walter Brennan I can't imagine a more… More

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