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Titolo originale: The Pride of the Yankees
Regia: Sam Wood |
Anno: 1942
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma Famiglia
Tag: sports | baseball | biography | historical figure | yankee stadium | motor neuron disease | joyful | sincere |
Cast: Gary Cooper | Teresa Wright | Babe Ruth | Walter Brennan | Dan Duryea | Elsa Janssen | Ludwig Stössel | Virginia Gilmore | Bill Dickey | Ernie Adams | Pierre Watkin | Harry Harvey | Bob Meusel | Mark Koenig | Bill Stern | Addison Richards | Hardie Albright | Edward Fielding | George Lessey | Edgar Barrier | Douglas Croft | Gene Collins | David Holt | Veloz | Yolanda | Ed Agresti | Ernie Alexander | Hooper Atchley | Edwin August | Bettye Avery | Becky Bohanon | Lynton Brent | Roy Brent | Betty Brewer | Don Brodie | Charles Cane | Jack Carr | Burr Caruth | Eddy Chandler | Lane Chandler | Bill Chaney | Jack Chapin | Janet Chapman | Spencer Charters | Porter Chase | Dane Clark | Heinie Conklin | Hal Cooke | Clancy Cooper | John Daheim | Eva Dennison | Lester Dorr | Peter Du Rey | Lorna Dunn | Jim Farley | Frank Faylen | Walter Fenner | Pat Flaherty | Rosina Galli | Vaughan Glaser | Mary Gordon | Herschel Graham | George Guhl | Eddie Hall | Harry Hayden | Vinton Hayworth | Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian | John Hiestand | Earle Hodgins | Fay Holderness | John Ince | Mitchell Ingraham | Charles Irwin | Jack Irwin | Sheldon Jett | Payne B. Johnson | John Kellogg | Colin Kenny | Donald Kerr | Richard Kipling | Pat Lane | Larry Lawson | Rex Lease | Theodore Lorch | Frank Lyman | Wilbur Mack | Dave Manley | Maurice Marks | Francisco Marán | John C. McCallum | Ralph McCullough | George McDonald | Matt McHugh | James McNamara | Wilmuth Merkyl | Howard M. Mitchell | Irving Mitchell | Pat Moriarity | Tom Neal | Ray Noble | Patsy O'Byrne | George Offerman, Jr. | John B. Old | Garry Owen | Sarah Padden | Emory Parnell | Edward Peil Sr. | Tom Quinn | Cyril Ring | Henry Roquemore | Art Rowlands | William Roy | Rip Russell | Francis Sayles | Anita Sharp-Bolster | C. Montague Shaw | Jack Shea | John Sheehan | Jack Stewart | Brick Sullivan | Ben Taggart | Walter Tetley | Jimmy Valentine | Gohr Van Vleck | Dorothy Vaughan | Dorothy Vernon | Malcolm Waite | James Westerfield | Guy Wilkerson | Max Willenz | Buddy Williams | Charles Williams | Robert Winkler | Allen Wood | Mike Donovan | Dick Gordon | Charles Flynn | Jack Gardner | Anthony Walters |

I parenti lo vorrebbero ingegnere, ma la sua passione è il baseball. Studia e si allena, porta alla vittoria la sua squadra in oltre duemila partite, sposa una sua fan. Vivace biografia di Lou Gehrig, per sedici anni asso degli Yankees che, al culmine della gloria sportiva, fu colpito da una micidiale forma di sclerosi e morì a 37 anni.

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The Yankees played 2 World Series against the Cardinals while Lou Gehrig was on the team, in 1926 an [...] D
When young Lou hits the ball, a closeup shows the pitcher in his wind-up almost-to or at-ball releas [...] D
When Lou gets his chance to take injured Wally Pipp's place at Comiskey Park, the Yankee dugout is p [...] D
Lou Gehrig played his first game as a Yankee during the 1923 season. Yet, when he enters the Yankee [...] D
The film shows Lou meeting Eleanor Twitchell on a road trip to Chicago during his rookie season (192 [...] D
As Mrs. Gehrig is looking through her scrapbook, she comes across a newspaper dated 12 September 193 [...] D
At an hour and 2 minutes into the film, the Yankees are playing the Cardinals at Sportsman's Park in [...] D
During the game with the home runs for the boy in the hospital, one shot of the infield shows a dirt [...] D
The representation of the Johnny Sylvester story line is full of errors: Sylvester was in hospital i [...] D
After the wedding in Gehrig's apartment, the crowd of workers and family waves goodbye to Lou and El [...] D
During the collage of Gehrig's first road trip as a starter, when the Yankees are in Washington, a r [...] D
The second home run that Gehrig hits in the World Series game against St. Louis Cardinals (Gehrig pr [...] D
When Mom Gehrig joins Eleanor Twitchell and they are discussing the bureau as they shop for home fur [...] D
In the World Series game Gehrig hits 2 homers, it's in St.Louis, however, the crowd reactions are no [...] D
When Lou hits the first of his two HRs during the 1928 World Series, the shadows of two light towers [...] D
When Lou and Eleanor are introduced at the Chicago restaurant, a house band is heard playing "I'll S [...] D
Many people believe that Lou Gehrig's streak started when he first played first base. However, this [...] D
In the movie, Lou Gehrig hits two home runs and Babe Ruth hits one for "Little Billy" in the hospita [...] D
Young Lou's sandlot hit came from an empty pitcher's pitch. The actual "hit" ball appears to be shot [...] D
The exchange between Sam and Lou states that Gehrig won the American League Triple Crown on the same [...] D
Gary Cooper is shown at the Scripps Institute undergoing tests for his disease, but the testing actu [...] D
The movie shows Gehrig's consecutive games streak ended when he took himself out of the lineup in th [...] D
When Eleanor (Teresa Wright) pulls up to the kids' ball game that Lou (Gary Cooper) is umping, there [...] D
One of the strikeouts between Gehrig's two homers for Little Billy was on four strikes. The first st [...] D
When a young Lou hits the baseball over the fence and breaks the store window, the police officer an [...] D
As Gehrig (Cooper) is doing his homework at Columbia, he writes with his right hand. Whilst Gehrig b [...] D
When Walter Brennan gets stopped by two motorcycle cops whilst driving Lou and his wife to the ballp [...] D
When Lou enters the Yankees' clubhouse in 1923, he sees Tony Lazzeri's name on one of the lockers. T [...] D
When young Lou Gehrig hit the ball through the window, the ball clearly didn't come off his bat. D
Apart from the fact that Lou Gehrig benched himself before the game in Detroit and never was part of [...] D
The home run that Babe Ruth promised and hit for the little boy in the hospital is said to have gone [...] D