#sergeant york

[jpspurs]

#sergeant york

[howardhawkshollywood]

This scene of Alvin York's enlightenment in Sergeant York 1941) was filmed entirely in Warner Brothers studios.

#sergeant york #gary cooper

[onefootin1941]

#sergeant york #june lockhart #happy birthday! #dickie moore #margaret wycherly #gary cooper #1941

[byneddiedingo]

Gary Cooper and Joan Leslie in Sergeant York (Howard Hawks, 1941)

Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, Margaret Wycherly, George Tobias, Stanley Ridges, Ward Bond, Noah Beery Jr., June Lockhart, Dickie Moore, Clem Bevans, Howard Da Silva. Screenplay: Abem Finkel, Harry Chandlee, Howard Koch, John Huston, based on a diary by Alvin C. York edited by Tom Skeyhill. Cinematography: Sol Polito. Art direction: John Hughes. Film editing: William Holmes. Music: Max Steiner

Sheer Hollywood biopic hokum made watchable by Howard Hawks and Gary Cooper, along with a colorful supporting cast. Sergeant York earned Hawks his one and only Oscar nomination for directing -- not Bringing Up Baby (1938) or Only Angels Have Wings (1939) or His Girl Friday (1940) or To Have and Have Not (1944) or The Big Sleep (1946) or Red River (1948) or Rio Bravo (1959), more than two decades of the most entertaining movies anyone ever made. It was in fact Hawks's lack of the kind of high seriousness so often rewarded with Oscars that makes Sergeant York still entertaining today, which is why he lost to John Ford for How Green Was My Valley, a directing Oscar that by rights should have gone to Orson Welles for Citizen Kane. It's fairly clear that Hawks doesn't take Sergeant York entirely seriously, with its exteriors built on the soundstage, its well-scrubbed hillbillies, its cornpone hijinks and caricature religiosity, not to mention dialogue that sounds straight out of Al Capp's "Li'l Abner." But it also takes a Gary Cooper to deliver speeches like "I believe in the bible and I'm a-believin' that this here life we're a-livin' is something the good lord done give us and we got to be a-livin' it the best we can, and I'm a-figurin' that killing other folks ain't no part of what he was intendin' for us to be a-doin' here." Granted, Cooper had just turned 40 and was a good deal too old to play Alvin C. York, but his characteristic sly, shy self-effacement is essential to the role. The old story that York himself said that he wouldn't allow himself to be played on film by anyone else but Cooper sounds like the work of a Warner Bros. publicist, and one biographer has suggested that it was a hoax cooked up by producer Jesse L. Lasky to persuade Cooper to take the part, but se non è vero, è ben trovato -- if it's not true, it ought to be. Sergeant York cleaned up at the box office, especially when it got a second run after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and raked in 11 Oscar nominations, winning for Cooper and for film editing. Other nominees include Margaret Wycherly as Mother York -- a far cry from her killer mama in Raoul Walsh's White Heat (1949) -- and Walter Brennan, with his false teeth in and his eyebrows darkened, as Pastor Pile, along with the screenwriters, cinematographer Sol Polito, the art direction, the sound, and Max Steiner's patriotic tune-quoting score. It can't be taken seriously today, but it can be enjoyed.

#Sergeant York #Howard Hawks #Gary Cooper #Joan Leslie

[coop-appreciation]

#Gary cooper #bette davis #little foxes #sergeant York #Instagram

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

#sergeant york #gary cooper #walter brennan #joan leslie #george tobias #stanley ridges #howard hawks #1941

[entrehormigones]

#Sergeant York #gary cooper #movie #film #movie gif #howard hawks

[floating-hasselblad]

It's what he would've wanted

#sergeant york #i was looking for the t72 turret that got launched 400 feet in the air and caught on awacs radar #and found this

[jasonsutekh]

Sergeant York (1941)

A country man works for a piece of land but is denied the chance and then gets drafted for the army in World War 1 but has religious objections.

 Some of the political messages in the film are apposite enough, for example the demonstration that hard work doesn’t always lead one to the deserved benefits if there’s someone around to exploit the poorer party. It shows that just rewards are a classist myth and it requires divine intervention for one to get anywhere.

 It ignores most of the prominent factors concerned with the causes of World War 1 and the part it played in going on to partly cause World War 2, factors which are important in the moral considerations depicted in the movie. Much of it is pro-US and pro-war propaganda using religious and military reasoning that could, and has been used to, justify anything.

 There’s an attempt at humour in some scenes, the more effective being those aimed at the authority figures. There’s a little slapstick but it doesn’t feel appropriate with the war imagery framing it. Although it’s controversial how the moral messages work out, it’s at least interesting to hear the discourse on ethics from various social areas.

 The happy ending relies quite heavily on public philanthropy and is equivalent to the money he could have gotten as profit for his wartime deeds and refuses which could be read as hypocritical. It’s also an unfortunate trope in the film that one has to be exceptional at something useful in order for them to be worth listening to despite his ethical concerns having little or no bearing on his marksmanship.

 3/10 -This one’s bad but it’s got some good in it, just there-

 -Production had trouble finding young male actors to play the soldiers due to the 1941 draft.

-Despite the unrealistic exploits of the protagonist, he’s heavily based on a real person of the same name.

#Film #Review #Sergeant York #1941 #War #War Film #JasonSutekh

[jessybarnes]

My daughter, who everyone calls Mini Buck, finally got to meet her idol! She proposed to him in her photo op and a staff member gave him the ring. By the way, he said yes! My best friend edited this video for me to post on my TikTok. It's also on her TikTok (Her handle is in the video along with mine) 🥰❤️

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[howardhawkshollywood]

Joan Leslie in a publicity still for Sergeant York (1941)

#joan leslie #sergeant york

[newyorkthegoldenage]

In 1957, one of top-rated shows on TV was Sergeant Bilko, starring Phil Silvers. Camel cigarettes capitalized on his popularity by swapping out an illustration of the sergeant for the usual one of an anonymous man. It’s not clear whether the smoke came out of Bilko’s mouth, too.

Photo: kodakslides/Instagram

#New York #NYC #vintage New York #1950s #Camel cigarettes #advertising #vintage ads #neon signs #Sergeant Bilko #Sgt. Bilko #Phil Silvers #Times Square #billboards #Kodachrome #color photography

[999squids]

#chuckling at this. look at raegans old reversed boot. poor sergeant york

[gonzoduran]

Gonzalo Duran Weekly Campaign Update 3/4/23

Just updating you on my petitioning and asking for volunteers. http://www.gonzaloduran.nyc

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#Bronx #Bronx New York #CD17 #City Council 17 #Gonzalo Duran #New York City Council District 17 #NYC Candidate #Sergeant Gonzalo Duran #Sgt Gonzalo Duran #The Bronx Son #Veterans #Youtube

[mercurygray]

@ everyone writing Shifty Powers: Can I interest you in Sergeant York (1941)?

It's the same vibe, I promise. Local country boy makes good on talent with rifle.

#band of brothers #sergeant york 1941 #shifty powers

[scrollsofhumanlife]

Norma Jean Crichlow-Perez

B. December 12th 1957 in Uniondale, Hempstead, New York

Las Vegas, Nevada

#Norma Jean Crichlow-Perez #uniondale #hempstead #new york #long island #las vegas #nevada #mother #wife #us air force sergeant #may she rest in peace #<3