6. Sergeant York (1941) is the American propaganda film starring Gary Cooper to which Zoller's Stolz der Nation is intended as counterpart. Directed by the normally dependable Howard Hawks, the Hollywood legend to whom Tarantino is often compared (by me), this treacly biopic on the most decorated American soldier of WWI, Sgt Alvin York, was shamelessly released on Fourth of July weekend to gobble up the box office in a year that should have belonged to Citizen Kane.* To hell with Gary Cooper. Everyone loves that guy for his tall handsomeness and supposed integrity, but to me he always comes off like a sullen twat with a chip on his shoulder.
* Think Rocky upstaging Taxi Driver in 1976.
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