Sergeant York (1941)

2024-07-01

New month! New theme! July gets pretty explosive so why not talk about war movies all month? It’s a theme we’re calling “GLORY & PROPAGANDA”. We start it off with some proper classic American movie heroism and jingoism but be prepared for things to not tow such a patriotic line as we dive deeper into the horrors of war on film all month. Today, we can revel in some patriotism in a biopic about a classic American hero who happens to be Tennesseean just like the hosts of this show! Alvin York was a deeply religious man who didn’t even want to go fighting in Europe when the government came calling for the meat show. Fortunately, a bible verse about turning your holes out for Caesar talked him into killing A LOT of Germans and capturing several more. It earned York the Medal of Honor and this movie about him earned Gary Cooper, who played Alvin York, a best actor Oscar. It’s our third Howard Hawks flick, the 1941 hit “SERGEANT YORK” played by the aforementioned Gary Cooper who is, unfortunately, not gay. It’s too bad, really. He would have been a great secret Hollywood gay. Here’s the movie in color but we watched it in the original black and white: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5fXLdkrTdI

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