sgt York...
just came on TCM, couldn't tell you how many time I have seen it, guess you can add one more to the total though.......
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Watched more times than I can remember 0 -
Great movie! I watch it at least once a year. Gary Cooper did a fine job and he had the eyes of Alvin York on him all through the making! Alvin's only criticism was when Cooper would light up a smoke during breaks! 0 -
Great movie!
When I was a kid in Atlanta I played baseball at a field off of Dresden Drive, near Buford Highway.
There was, right next to the baseball field, a 4 acre pond. Running right across the middle of the pond was a concrete wall, about 3 inches under water. You could walk out on that wall, and it looked like you were walking on water.
My parents were Yankees who moved to Atlanta when I was 2 years old they didn't know anything about Atlanta history.
So I asked my Southern buddies on the team what this was, they always said "It is Camp Gordon."
This was a huge WW1 camp where they trained soldiers, it went four miles from that pond, all the way up to what is now Peachtree DeKalb Airport. This is where the famous rifle range scene in the movie took place.0 -
Yes they started him off with a 1911 Colt but it wouldn't cycle the blanks. So they had to switch to a Luger. 0 -
I've hunted Pall Mall county. Rough country. He grew up tough.I find it sad, that Alvin was offered thousands of dollars for appearances, endorsements, newspaper stories and movie rights but he refused, choosing instead to simply lend his name to various charitable and civic causes.He had great plans for improving education in his area and but could not afford to operate his own farm.0 -
I have watched the move countless times ( other than the fake southern accents too me at least ) a lot of a mans life packed into a movie and a great one at that .
seems his morals were high in refusing to take endorsement for killing and his actions to save his buddies
but if the movie holds true he accepted a farm and new buildings and livestock from the state of Tennessee ( again what a great gift to give the man and his family ) for the same deeds for being a hero ( which he truly was I have nothing but respect for the man as a kid he was one of my heroes ) but that seems to go against his not wanting rewarded for it ? accepting the farm ?0 -
A friend I met through the internet many years ago acquired the Kentucky long rifle that movie York's (Gary Cooper) kid brother (Dicky Moore) carried in the movie. A fine original piece made by Nicolas Hawk in Pennsylvania ca. 1810. He won the rifle at one of those Hollywood auctions selling old movie memorabilia. 0 -
I live in the mountains of North Carolina, not that far from where Sgt. York grew up.
In 1914 the place where I live was a working farm, my house site on top of the mountain was a corn field a hundred years ago.
The old barn from 1914 is still here. I often think about the people who lived here a hundred years ago and this movie is my point of reference. These North Carolina people would have dressed and behaved like those people did in this movie. It is intriguing to me to think that they may still have been shooting muzzleloaders in 1914, but it does make sense. The old caplock guns were reliable and cheap to shoot.0 -
allen that is one thing I have tried to tell my kids, as far forward as the 60's when I was little, I still remember going to visit my grandparents and seeing folks on the backroads who still lived almost this way, with the exception of electric, most still had wells and outside toilets and talked just like them, maybe not what you would call dumb, just uneducated, no booklearning, but could get by on what they grew, hunted, trapped and their wits............ 0
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