With a backbone made strong from tilling rocky farmland, and a trigger finger made precise by hunting wild game, it's no wonder that Alvin C. York became a superior soldier. In fact, despite his moral objection to war, York became the most decorated military man of WW I, earning his medals on the battlefields of Argonne when he single-handedly extinguished a German machine gun squadron armed only with a Springfield rifle and a Colt 45 pistol. A pacifist turned patriot, York became not only a daring freedom fighter but also one of our nation's most revered heroes!

Based on a true story and nominated for 11 Academy Awards, this "powerful and engrossing" (Look) WW I classic is an honest and fitting tribute to heroism that is further distinguished by the Oscar-winning performance of the remarkable Gary Cooper: 1941: Actor

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Because WW II was approaching, York, after holding out for 23 years, agreed to let his life story be told on the condition that Cooper plays the lead. Mounted on a steel turntable so that 16 angles of it could be filmed, the 40-foot peak that York ascends to contemplate war was built from canvas and wood. Select battle scenes were shot on an 80-acre barley farm that was strewn with charred tree trunks and made to look war-torn by five tons of dynamite.

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