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Alvin York, a poor young farmer from the rural area near Pall Mall, Tennessee, lives a hardscrabble existence in a community
whose poverty and isolation leave them with a lifestyle hardly different from people of a century earlier. He is an exceptional
marksman, but a ne'er-do-well prone to drinking and fighting, which does not make things any easier for his long-suffering,
widowed mother. Alvin's farm is on rocky land high in the mountains, which barely supports him and his siblings. He meets a
sweet-natured local girl, Gracie Williams, and works night and day at strenuous odd jobs to accumulate the payment for a
fertile "bottomland" farm so she'll marry him. The owner, Tomkins, gives Alvin sixty days to raise the purchase price. On
the day the last payment is due, Alvin wins the final needed amount at a target-shooting contest, but discovers Tomkins has
reneged and sold the farm to Alvin's romantic rival, Zeb Andrews, keeping all of the partial payments Alvin had made. Alvin
drinks heavily and swears revenge. That night, en route to attack Tomkins and Andrews, the rifle Alvin is holding is struck by
lightning, splitting the barrel in two and knocking him off his mule. Similar to the biblical conversion of Paul, York survives
the lightning strike and undergoes a religious awakening when he joins a revival meeting at the nearby church, vowing never to
get drunk or angry again. He makes amends with the men who cheated him out of the land, while Gracie points out that her love
is tied to him and not the bottomland.
When the U.S. enters World War I and York is drafted into the army, he tries to avoid induction into the Army as a conscientious
objector, but is denied since his church has no official standing. He reluctantly reports to Camp Gordon for basic training, where
he is harassed because of his objector status, but his superiors eventually discover that he is a phenomenal marksman and decide
to promote him to corporal. York still wants nothing to do with the Army and killing. Major Buxton, his sympathetic commanding
officer, tries to change York's mind, citing sacrifices made by others throughout the history of the United States. He gives York
a leave to go home and think it over. He promises York a recommendation for his exemption as a conscientious objector if York
remains unconvinced. While York is fasting and pondering, the wind blows his Bible open to the verse "Render therefore unto Caesar
the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's." York reports back for duty and tells his superiors that
he can serve his country, despite not having everything figured out to his satisfaction, leaving the matter in God's hands.
His unit is shipped out to Europe and participates in an attack during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive on October 8, 1918. Pinned down
by deadly machine gun fire, the lieutenant orders Sergeant Early to take some men and try to attack the machine gun nests from
behind. York suddenly finds himself the last remaining unwounded non-commissioned officer in the detachment, and is placed in
command by Early.
Seeing his comrades being shot down all around him, his self-doubt disappears. He works his way to a position flanking the main enemy
trench and, as a sniper, fires individual rifle shots with such devastating effect that the Germans surrender. Then, York forces a
captured officer at gunpoint to order the Germans still fighting in another section of the line to also surrender. He and the handful
of other survivors end up with 132 prisoners. York becomes a national hero and is awarded the Medal of Honor. When Major Buxton asks
him why he did what he did, York explains that he was trying to save the lives of his men. Arriving in New York City in early 1919,
York receives a ticker tape parade and a key to the city. He is impressed with the Waldorf-Astoria hotel and its indoor electricity.
Congressman Cordell Hull guides him through the city and informs him that he has been offered opportunities to commercialize on his
fame, all totaling around $250,000 (for context, $3.5 million today). York mentions the bottomland he wanted and Hull responds he
could buy it with the money. York rejects the offers, however, saying that he was not proud of what he did in the war, but it had
to be done, and he will not profit from his fame. He tells Hull he wants to go home. He returns to Tennessee greeted by Gracie and
his family. To his surprise, the people of his home state have bought him the bottomland farm he wanted and built him a house on
the land.
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Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias
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Director: Howard Hawks
Producer: Howard Hawks, Jesse L. Lasky, Hal B. Wallis
Released - July 2, 1941
Length - 134 minutes
Music Composer: John Williams
Movie Distributed by Warner Brothers
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