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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...