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  1. DanMel

    COOPER, BRANDO, AND NEWMAN BOXSETS IN NOVEMBER

    One last note is that popularity does not always equate to greatness. With new releases, they may be very popular for six months to a year and then fade off to nothing. However, when a classic movie like Sergeant York (67 years old) can be as popular as newly released movies, I would say that it...
  2. DanMel

    COOPER, BRANDO, AND NEWMAN BOXSETS IN NOVEMBER

    "So that means it is impossible to definitively say whether something is a good or bad film." Well considering that I believe Sergeant York to be a great film and my personal favorite movie and others including yourself that think it is not, I would say that it is a subjective stand on what...
  3. DanMel

    COOPER, BRANDO, AND NEWMAN BOXSETS IN NOVEMBER

    I'm not saying that the movie Sergeant York or any other movie has to be historically accurate to be good. However, I did want to set the record straight that Sergeant York is quite historically accurate as far as the battle goes and it does happen to be quite enteraining as well. I tended to...
  4. DanMel

    COOPER, BRANDO, AND NEWMAN BOXSETS IN NOVEMBER

    On his early life there is this documentation posted: "Alvin Collum York was born to an impoverished farming family in Tennessee on December 13, 1887, the third of eleven children.[1] Up until a few years before the war, York was hard drinking and prone to fighting in saloons. His mother, a...
  5. DanMel

    COOPER, BRANDO, AND NEWMAN BOXSETS IN NOVEMBER

    I read down this very old thread, but it doesn't seem like anyone on this forum actually challenged this claim that Sergeant York was just a bunch of propaganda, so I will let the actual real life story of Sergeant York below explain in detail just how accurate this movie was on his life. Alvin...
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