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Rating:  - GO YANKEES!
As a die-hard Yankee fan this movie still ranks way at the top. The story and the acting along with the fact that Babe Ruth himself appears in it makes awesome. Lou Gehrig was one great baseball player and it is sad he died too soon. A great movie for ANY fan of baseball.
Rating:  - Vintage Gary Cooper
Pride of the Yankees is one of the best sports movies of all time and many people rank it as the best baseball movie ever. I would rank Bull Durham as the best baseball film and if you're interested in cultural change, they're great to watch in tandem.
Although overly sentimental,the movie is a fairly honest biopic. A special treat is that Babe Ruth plays himself in the movie. The script doesn't ignore, but does soft-peddles the sometime bitter competition between Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
Pride of the Yankees was nominated for ten academy awards, but only won Best Film Editing. Mrs. Miniver took away all the top honors in 1942. When Pride of the Yankees was put into production, the U.S. hadn't yet entered the WWII. War raged on the opposite side of both oceans and Hollywood tried to ignore it with Pride of the Yankees and Yankee Doodle Dandy (Two-Disc Special Edition). (Cagney won for best actor.) We were in the war deep by the time of Oscar voting, so baseball didn't stand a chance against a great war film from England.
Here's a piece of trivia from Encarta: Gary Cooper was not left handed and some scenes were shot with his number backwards and the film reversed during processing. Another piece of trivia: by the time this movie was filmed, Walter Brennan had already won three Oscars for Best Supporting Actor.
I wish Amazon would start listing DVD special features in the product Detail section. There are no special features on the DVD I own and with 4 versions it would be nice to know if some had material beyond the movie.
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Rating: - The Pride of Hollywood
Back when the country was suffering through world wars and the great depression the primary focus of Hollywood and Sports was to give people a reason to smile. This movie is one of the golden moments in entertainment taking an essential personal sports story and retelling it in the way that only Hollywood could do it.
Every time I sit down to watch this film I wonder at how the story of a man losing his life can make me feel so good. The simple answer is that the story isn't about losing life, it is about living life. Like Gehrig, my father died at an early age. And like Gehrig, he lived more in the 47 years he had then most people live in 74. It is that quality of living in the right way no matter how long you have that makes this movie special to me.
For a baseball fan (another gift from my father) this is the ultimate story of a guy who went to work every day without fail until he couldn't do it any more. And in the end he could look back and be proud of the job he had done and the life he had lived.
We all should be so fortunate.
Rating: - pride of the yankees
i have the annuversery edition and just ordered the coolectors edition. the film is one of base balls famouse films to come out. back then and still today. give it a shot
Rating: - Corny but essential
"Pride of the Yankees" is "the" baseball movie from the "golden age" of Hollywood. If for no other reason it can be called that becauise it has Babe Ruth (as himself) along with Bill Dickey (as himself). Gary Cooper is a legend on the screen but a pretty embarassing batter on screen. Teresa Wright is wonderful as Eleanor Gehrig, as is Walter Brennan as a sportswriter. The shots of Yankee Stadium from before its remuddling in the mid 70's are also wonderful. Cooper still brings a tear to the eye in his farewell speech. If you want to get this movie buy the 2008 re-release which has some extras in it, the lack of which is the only downside to the long standing dvd release. Even though I can't stand the modern day Yankees this movie is a classic!
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