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Whistle Stopper - Sergeant York (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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List Price: $26.98
Our Price: $11.74
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Stanley Ridges
Directed By: Howard Hawks
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569793750
Format: Black & White
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-11-07
Running Time: 134
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1941-09-27
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Summary: One of the Best Movies Ever
Comment: This movie does not lose its appeal. I hadn't seen it for years and was touched by it again and purchased it for my sons. Love, faith, patriotism - a very uplifting movie and still relevant in today's world.
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Summary: Greatest War Movie Ever
Comment: This is one of my all time favorite movies, I remember watching it with my dad when I was a kid. I also remember seeing it at a theatre in '98 that featured classic movies.
Gary Cooper's portrayal of a man who's only drive is to serve his country honorably when called and save as many of his men as he can is inspiring.
I grew up in Kentucky so Alvin York's story was part of our culture.
This is the type of movie I cannot turn away from, it commands my attention, and it reminds me of what a man should aspire to be.
In the majority of war movies being produced today there is always a focus on special forces or for lack of a better term a scripted hero. York never wanted to be a hero he only wanted what most men who have seen war will tell you, he wanted to stop the guns.
This is a classic movie and many of the ideas expressed are shaded in our modern culture, but they are still there waiting for the next generation to shine upon them.
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Summary: Made me Cry like a Girl
Comment: One of the best true-story films ever made, Sergeant York, gets America ready for sacrifice as the Axis rolls against the democracies in 1941. Gary Cooper brings York to life, a Tennessee Hillbilly with a drinkin' problem. Coop is probably too old to play a very young man in 41, but his acting style, the American Everyman pulls it off. He's a hayseed, but he's our hayseed. As York stumbles in poverty, as he betters himself, working hard, striving for good bottom land, there's dissapointments. Luckily, he falls for a fine country gal, he has the support of his ma and siblings, and then there's Walter Brennan as his spiritual advisor.
Coop gets religion and is a mind that war and killing is wrong. WW1 happens and even in Danial Boone country, men are drafted. Our anti-war fellow goes reluctantly, learns a little American history, balances liberty with warfare, and the rest is history.
Few films actually make me blubber like a girl, but SY does it again and again. That last scene with his girl at the bottom land farm, that broke me for hours.
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Summary: Movie review
Comment: I ordered this classic as a surprise gift for my father who turned 80 in 2008! This is his favorite all time movie. He was surprised and enjoyed the entire film. All generations could be inspired with this movie.
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Summary: Great Story
Comment: Great story -- classic Gary Cooper -- good one to own as it can enjoyed many times -- great each time.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Gary Cooper plays Alvin York, the real-life country lad and sharpshooter drafted to fight during World War I but blocked from killing by his pacifist sentiments. Howard Hawks makes a rousing, heroic film out of the tale, and Cooper gives one of his best performances (for which he won an Oscar). The 1941 feature seems as much a valentine to wartime America (and a not-so-subtle piece of propaganda) as anything, with Hawks capturing splendidly shot scenes of life in York's home state of Tennessee, which in turn provide a striking contrast to the battlefield. A key scene in the film, in which York is presented with an argument in favor of killing in war, is still thought provoking. --Tom Keogh
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