SERGEANT YORK (1941)

Gary Cooper's career-making star-turn as Alvin York, an Appalachian pacifist drafted into World War I, earned him the first of the two Best-Actor Oscars that graced his long career. In Howard Hawks' acclaimed war drama, Sgt. York single-handedly seizes an enemy platoon in the heat of battle, becoming a national hero. Based on the story of a real-life war hero, Sergeant York was nominated for 11 Academy Awards.

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 and Best Director for Howard Hawks. Cooper won his first Best Actor Oscar and Walter Brennan received a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Sergeant York.

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