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Two Disc Set of WWI Films
- Item Number
- 71
- Estimated Value
- 30 USD
- Sold
- 10 USD to ppc30e07f
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
Two WWI films on DVD (new):
Sergeant York with Gary Cooper, 1941
Gary Cooper plays Alvin York, the real-life country lad and sharpshooter drafted to fight during World War I but blocked from killing by his pacifist sentiments. Howard Hawks makes a rousing, heroic film out of the tale, and Cooper gives one of his best performances (for which he won an Oscar). The 1941 feature seems as much a valentine to wartime America (and a not-so-subtle piece of propaganda) as anything, with Hawks capturing splendidly shot scenes of life in York's home state of Tennessee, which in turn provide a striking contrast to the battlefield. A key scene in the film, in which York is presented with an argument in favor of killing in war, is still thought provoking.
The Lost Battalion with Rick Schroder, 2001
October 5, 1918. The Germans gave them two options. Surrender. Or die. They choseia third.
It began on October 2nd, 1918, when the men of the U.S. Army's 77th Division, 308th Battalion were surrounded by German troops in the Argonne Forest. Without food, water or reserve ammunition, cut off from supply and communication lines, and subjected to constant assaults and bombardments, they managed to hold off the enemy until they were finally rescued after five days of desperate action.
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