An amazing movie. I liked it so much I watched it AGAIN right after with the ‘commentary’ on. She was a brilliant Hollywood Military Movie Historian - and had some very neato things to say about that movie, its subject matter and history, and the impact the movie itself had on history and in the history of films.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034167/
Alvin C. York had been approached by producer Jesse Lasky several times, beginning in 1919, to allow a movie to be made of his life, but had refused, believing that “This uniform ain’t for sale.” Lasky convinced York that, with war threatening in Europe, it was his patriotic duty to allow the film to proceed. York finally agreed - but only on three conditions. First, York’s share of the profits would be contributed to a Bible School York wanted constructed. Second, no cigarette smoking actress could be chosen to play his wife. Third, that only Gary Cooper, could recreate his life on screen. Cooper at first turned down the role, but when York himself contacted the star with a personal plea, Cooper agreed to do the picture.
Alvin: Well I’m as much agin’ killin’ as ever, sir. But it was this way, Colonel. When I started out, I felt just like you said, but when I hear them machine guns a-goin’, and all them fellas are droppin’ around me... I figured them guns was killin’ hundreds, maybe thousands, and there weren’t nothin’ anybody could do, but to stop them guns. And that’s what I done.
Maj. Buxton: Do you mean to tell me that you did it to save lives?
Alvin: Yes sir, that was why.
Maj. Buxton: [amazed] Well, York, what you’ve just told me is the most extraordinary thing of all!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyF9KKUeds8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f68TdgErXkE
BTW:
Ah always wets muh keys when I'm a fixin' tuh do some real postin'.