Film · RKO · 1942
Pass it on
The Pride of the Yankees
71Worth an evening.
The work is showing up every day, until an illness ends the streak and the life.
The review
A Yankee first baseman played every day until he could not. Gary Cooper plays him. The work is the games. There is a marriage. An illness ends the streak and the life. He says goodbye at the stadium, and I won't quote the speech. A house can watch it. The 1942 gross was large, next to noisier war pictures. This one is a job, then a body that will not do the job.
I knew the ending. It still felt like a bill arriving, not a trick. Kids can watch a ballplayer if they know the illness is the story and not a slump. The marriage keeps it from being only a reel of hits. What I respected was the showing up. The showing up stops. The film doesn't pretend he gets the position back, and that honesty is why I'd leave it on.
Journal
Keep The Pride of the Yankees in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 71. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety is the thin one.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Tenzing
78 instead of 71
Tenzing is still a biography film, and it scores 78 instead of 71. What you gain is piety: He climbs Chomolungma as a presence owed reverence; the others mean to conquer a peak.
The eight
- 9Industry
The work is the games, played every day until he could not.
- 7Household
A marriage runs beside the streak, so the life is not only the ballpark.
- 4Piety
Illness stops the streak; conscience is not what takes him out.
- 8Courage
He plays until he cannot, then loses the work and the life.
- 7Republic
He says goodbye at the stadium, to the town that watched the streak.
- 7Temperance
Showing up every day is a want trained into the job itself.
- 8Truth
The illness is not hidden, and the goodbye does not fake a return.
- 7Stewardship
What remains is the streak's example, not a made-up recovery.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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