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Sergeant York is a 1941 American biographical film about the life of Alvin C. York, one of the most decorated American soldiers of World War I. Directed by Howard Hawks, the film stars Gary Cooper in the title role, and was based on York's diary Sergeant York: His Own Life Story and War Diary, as edited by Tom Skeyhill, and adapted by Harry Chandlee, Abem Finkel, John Huston, Howard E. Koch, and Sam Cowan…
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When the Second World War started, the United States stayed out of it by declaring neutrality. Some Hollywood studios, however, made films specifically to prepare the American public for the situation when that would no longer be the case, or even to sway public opinion—at the time predominantly isolationist—towards intervention on the side of the Allies. Warner Bros., led by its anti-fascist mogul Jack Warner, was…More
