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This Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 4pm Saturday in NZ, 2pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s The described movies Sergeant York from 1941, and Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House from 1948.
Sergeant York is a 1941 American biographical film about the life of Alvin C. York, one of the most decorated American soldiers of World War I.
Directed by Howard Hawks and starring Gary Cooper in the title role, the film was a critical and commercial success, and became the highest-grossing film of 1941.
The film was based on York's diary, as edited by Tom Skeyhill, and adapted by Harry Chandlee, Abem Finkel, John Huston, Howard E. Koch, and Sam Cowan (uncredited).
York refused, several times, to authorize a film version of his life story, but finally yielded to persistent efforts to finance the creation of an interdenominational Bible school.
The story that York insisted on Cooper for the title role comes from a telegram that producer Jesse L. Lasky wrote to Cooper pleading with him to accept the part, to which he signed York's name.
Cooper went on to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, while the film also won Best Film Editing and was nominated in nine other categories, including Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor ( Walter Brennan), and Supporting Actress ( Margaret Wycherly).
The American Film Institute ranked the film 57th in its 100 most inspirational American movies list; it also rated Alvin York 35th in its list of the top 50 heroes in American cinema.
In 2008, Sergeant York was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Directed by: Howard Hawks.
Screenplay by: Harry Chandlee, Abem Finkel , John Huston, and Howard E. Koch.
Based on: Sergeant York: His Own Life Story and War Diary by Tom Skeyhill, and Alvin York.
Produced by: Howard Hawks , Jesse L. Lasky, and Hal B. Wallis.
Starring: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, and Joan Leslie.
Cinematography: Sol Polito.
Edited by: William Holmes.
Music by: Max Steiner.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures.
Release date: 2 July 1941 ( New York City).
File Length: 134 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $1.7 million.
Box office: $8.3 million.
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House is a 1948 American comedy film directed by H. C. Potter and starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Melvyn Douglas.
Written and produced by the team of Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, it was an adaptation of Eric Hodgins's popular 1946 novel illustrated by Shrek!
author William Steig.
It was the third and last pairing of Grant and Loy, who had shared a comfortable chemistry in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) and Wings in the Dark (1935).
It was a box office hit upon its release.
Warner Home Video released it to DVD with restored and remastered audio and video in 2004.
It was remade in 1986 as The Money Pit, starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long, and in 2007 as Are We Done Yet?, starring Ice Cube.
Directed by: H. C. Potter.
Screenplay by: Melvin Frank, and Norman Panama.
Based on: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House by Eric Hodgins, and Mr. Blandings Builds His Castle 1946 Fortune.
Produced by: Dore Schary, Melvin Frank, and Norman Panama.
Starring: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Melvyn Douglas.
Narrated by: Melvyn Douglas.
Cinematography: James Wong Howe.
Edited by: Harry Marker.
Music by: Leigh Harline.
Production company: RKO Radio Pictures
Distributed by: Selznick Releasing Organization.
Release dates: March 25, 1948 (New York), and June 4, 1948 (US).
File length: 94 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Box office: $2,750,000 (US rentals).
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