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Sergeant York: Of God and Country

Sergeant York: Of God and Country chronicles how Alvin York’s story was brought to the screen in the 1941 film, Sergeant York, starring Gary Cooper. The documentary explores casting decisions, script development, performances, characters, shooting topics, and production problems. It also examines the complex political environment in America, in which isolationism, anti-Semitism, and the war in Europe almost derailed the film. Gary Cooper won his first Best Actor Oscar for his performance.
Narrated by Liam Neeson.

  • John Mulholland
    Director
    On Macbeth, Eastern European Composers, Charles Dickens and ‘A Christmas Carol. Liza Minnelli on Meet Me in St Louis, Reflections on Gaslight with Angela Lansbury, and As Time Goes By: The Children Remember on Casablanca, Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen, Elmore Leonard: But Don't Try to Write and Inside High Noon
  • John Mulholland
    Writer
  • Richard Zampella
    Producer
    Cooper & Hemingway: The True Gen, Inside High Noon, Elmore Leonard: But Don't Try to Write
  • Shannon Mulholland
    Producer
    Liza Minnelli on Meet Me in St Louis, Reflections on Gaslight with Angela Lansbury, and As Time Goes By: The Children Remember on Casablanca, Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen, Elmore Leonard: But Don't Try to Write and Inside High Noon
  • Maria Cooper
    Key Cast
    "Gary Cooper's Daughter"
  • Joan Leslie
    Key Cast
    "Gracie Williams"
    Sergeant York, Yankee Doodle Dandy, High Sierra, This Is the Army
  • Lune Lockhart
    Key Cast
    "Rosie York"
    Sergeant York, Meet Me in St. Louis, Lost in Space
  • Michael Birdwell
    Key Cast
    "Tennessee Tech University"
    Celluloid Soldiers: The Warner Bros. Campaign Against Nazism, Upper Cumberland Historic Architecture
  • Meir Ribalow
    Key Cast
    "Fordham University"
    "Chasing Ghosts" and "The Time We Have Misspent" and two novels, "Peanuts and Crackerjacks" and "Redheaded Blues"
  • Robert Osborne
    Key Cast
    "Turner Classic Hovies Host"
  • Liam Neeson
    Key Cast
    "Narrator"
    Nominated for a number of awards, including an Academy Award for Best Actor, a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama.
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    39 hours 50 minutes 10 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 11, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    75,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Analogue with HD Conform
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • John Mulholland
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  • John Mulholland
Director Biography - John Mulholland

JOHN MULHOLLAND is a filmmaker, writer and film historian. His latest documentaries, Elmore Leonard: But don’t try to write (narrated by Campbell Scott) and Inside High Noon (narrated by Matthew Rhys), aired on PBS Nationwide. Mulholland is also the author of Classic Film Chatter, a book series about notable film genres published by Cine Monde Classique. Politics in Film will be the first released. Colossal New York is publishing several of Mulholland’s graphic novels; among which: Tenderloin, which takes place during the Gilded Age of New York; Checkmate, a battle of the sexes thriller; and High Riviera, a romantic chase through the South of France. In addition,

Among some of Mulholland’s other documentaries: Cooper & Hemingway: The True Gen, narrated by Sam Waterston, which explores the 20-year friendship between Gary Cooper and Ernest Hemingway; Sergeant York: Of God And Country, narrated by Liam Neeson; The Letters Of Vincent and Theo Van Gogh; On Macbeth; Eastern European Composers; and Liza Minnelli Reflecting. He has worked with such award-winning actors as Liam Neeson, Angela Lansbury, Morgan Freeman, Kirk Douglas, Frank Langella, Len Cariou, Leonard Nimoy, Estelle Parsons, Sam Waterston, Patricia Neal, and Charlton Heston; and such authors as Jim Harrison, George Plimpton, Elmore Leonard, Bridgett Davis, Stephen Prince, Jim Born, Rachel Howzell Hall, and Otto Penzler. Mulholland also served as host for the popular podcast, Icons Radio Hour, which covered Classic Hollywood.

Along with such notables as Ian McKellen, Mark Rylance, Derek Jacobi, Sandra Day O’Connor, John Paul Stevens, and a host of others, Mulholland is a signatory to the Declaration of Reasonable Doubt, which questions that the man known as William Shakespeare actually wrote the plays attributed to him.

Mulholland lives in New York City. He is in the early stages of research for his next documentary, on author Graham Greene.

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