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Sergeant York was one of the best movies ever made, and one my favorites. It was made in the early '40s, and Gary Cooper won an Oscar, which he deserved. The movie was made, though, back in the days when morality and "old-time religion" meant something in this country...if you recall the script, Cooper became a God-fearing man and embraced spirituality and religion first and foremost in his life, after being convinced of Divine Protection, when his life was spared when riding drunk through a thunderstorm and his horse was hit by lightning. He saw again how God continued to protect and watch over him during his daring heroism and single-handed capture of all those Germans in WWI.

Today, in these corrupt times which are worse now than in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, Hollywood would never, ever consider making a film praising God and the "old-fashioned" Christian virtues that were exalted in Sergeant York. No sex, no profanity, no homosexuality, no bashing and trashing of the traditional family, no embrace of "diversity" and "tolerance," no violence, the right of a family to own a gun for self-defense and hunting, the Sunday tradition of church-going, hymn-singing and community togetherness...no way would Hollywood touch those verboten themes in a zillion years.

I still remember sitting through "American Beauty" when it came out (I watched it on cable, there was no way I was going to pay to see that trash)-- the movie was so obscene and vile, and celebrated so much depravity, that I actually felt physically sick afterward. Of course, it swept all the Oscars that year.