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Title: Help me identify this WWII flick Post by: Jim H on November 19, 2005, 06:14:41 AM For a friend...
It's a film about a sort of country boy who ends up drafted in WWII. He's probably against the Germans here. He used to hunt squirrels and what not, so he's a crackshot. He doesn't want to kill people, so he ends up wounding like 20 Germans and bringing them in as POWs. Of course, that makes him a war hero, which he doesn't want - he just wants to go home to his sweetheart and live on a farm. That's about all I've got. It's probably older... 50s or 60s? Title: Re: Help me identify this WWII flick Post by: Amanda on November 19, 2005, 11:30:46 AM That would be Sergeant York with ...Gary Cooper, I believe. Great Movie...and the crack shot is parodied in Land of the Dead. He always licks his thumb and then wets his sight.
Title: Re: Help me identify this WWII flick Post by: Jim H on November 19, 2005, 06:23:46 PM Wow. I've heard of Sgt. York before. I can't believe I didn't know... Thanks!
Title: Re: Help me identify this WWII flick Post by: trekgeezer on November 19, 2005, 09:56:12 PM Sgt. York killed about 20 Germans and then he and the 8 survivors of his platoon captured 132. He was the greatest American hero of World War I. He joined but was registered as a conscientious objector. His feelings about killing were well known to his commanders and he didn't want to shoot until he saw his comrades being machine gunned down.
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