Sergeant York (1941)

6.9	Listal rating
8	IMDB rating

War (4), Action (2), WWI (2), Drama (2), Sermon (1), Biography (1), Mother (1), World (1), World War I (1), Christian (1), Drunkenness (1), History (1), 1941 (1), Pacifism (1), Usa (1), Farmer (1), Religion (1), Rural (1), Military (1), Best Lead Actor Oscar (1)

Description

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 ... (more)

Directed by

Howard Hawks

Starring (View all) :

Alvin C. York

Pastor Rosier Pile

Gracie Williams

'Pusher' Ross

Major Buxton

Mother York

Ike Botkin

Buck Lipscomb

Rosie York

George York

Written by (View all) :

Abem Finkel

(screenplay)

Harry Chandlee

(screenplay) and

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