SERGEANT YORK (1941)

A true story of how a deeply religious Tennessee farmer, Alvin York, became the famous American hero of World War One who killed 20+ and then captured 132 more Germans.

The cast includes: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Stanley Ridges, Margaret Wycherly, Ward Bond, Dickie Moore, June Lockhart, Charles Trowbridge, Harvey Stephens, David Bruce, and Noah Beery Jr.

Nominated for Best Picture. Cooper won his first Best Actor Oscar and Walter Brennan received a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Sergeant York.

SERGEANT YORK was nominated for the Best Picture award.

Directed by Howard Hawks who received a Best Directing nomination.

The Sergeant York Review