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Film · 1941 · Biographical drama
Sergeant York
Directed by Howard Hawks
1941
★ 1.8 editorial score
Alvin York blocked a film about himself for two decades and gave in only to fund a Bible school: a Tennessee pacifist wins the Medal of Honor and Gary Cooper wins Best Actor.
“It is...a strangely affecting account, this brave and sincerely wrought biography of the lanky Alvin C. York, who left his barren home way back in the Cumberland hills to travel across troubled waters and fight for what he hoped would be the best. It is an honest saga of a plain American who believed in fundamentals and acted with clean simplicity.”
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