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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569699120
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledFrenchDubbedDolby Digital 1.0
Manufacturer: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
MPN: D66991D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Running Time: 102 minutes
Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Theatrical Release Date: April 22, 1944
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Chicago White Sox pitcher Monty Stratton is an affable long drink of water with an easy whiplike delivery and a pitch so unhittable the young phenom racks up consecutive 15-win seasons. But Stratton's greatest victory doesn't come on the manicured green diamonds of our national pastime. James Stewart portrays Stratton who loses a leg in an accident just as his career is on the rise...and whose triumph over despair and disability leads him to pitch again. Stewart signed on for the role when he realized the film would be an inspiration to injured World War II GIs. The film still inspires. Awarded an Oscar for Best Motion Picture Story directed by Sam Wood (The Pride of the Yankees) and supported by a top cast that includes real-life ballplayers The Stratton Story is sports biography at its best.Running Time: 102 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 012569699120 Manufacturer No: 66991
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James Stewart and June Allyson enjoyed one of their gee-whiz pairings in The Stratton Story, a baseball biopic with an easy swing. Stewart plays Monty Stratton, who, according to the film, is a country boy plowing the back forty when a transient scout (Frank Morgan) discovers him and hooks him up with the Chicago White Sox. Stratton has a couple of great years, only to be accidentally shot in a hunting accident, which results in his leg being amputated. If you think this is the end of the story, you might want to check the fact that The Stratton Story was one of the biggest box-office hits of 1949. The film rests on director Sam Wood's eye for outdoors American spaces--a country road, small-time baseball parks--and on the can-do chemistry of Stewart and Allyson, whose first teaming this was. (The Glenn Miller Story and Strategic Air Command would follow.) Audiences adored the lanky Stewart playing off the tiny, low-voiced, indomitably perky Allyson, even if the material is as programmed as a studio pitch meeting. Lovers of nostalgic baseball pictures won't have any problem with the cornball script (a few big-league cameos pass by, notably Bill Dickey). Agnes Moorehead is Stratton's down-home Maw, though she's mostly restricted to a backlot farmhouse. It won an Oscar for best original story, back when they gave Oscars for that. --Robert Horton
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Rating:  -
This was a nice baseball story, nothing exceptional, but one in which Jimmy Stewart's presence in the title roll elevates it.
Jimmy looks a bit old to be playing a rookie pitcher, and he doesn't throw like a professional, but at least he isn't pathetic in that regard like some of the other classic-era actors who attempted to do so (you know who they are). Anyway, they faked enough of the pitching scenes here to get away with Stewart's baseball shortcomings.
It's just as ... Read More
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If baseball is so symbolic of America that it becomes a metaphor for how we like to think we are or can be, then films that celebrate the immortals of baseball can easily tap into a well of mythic consciousness that resonates with each generation that watches them. In THE STRATTON STORY, director Sam Wood recreates a celluloid vision of grass roots America that audiences could well remember from PRIDE OF THE YANKEES. James Stewart as Monty Stratton has never been better as the small town pitcher ... Read More
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This movie is based on a true story, which always makes for the best kind of movie! And it is genuinely delightful. The picture quality is very clear, so much so, that the people I was watching the movie with couldn't believe it was a movie from the forties. Jimmy Stewart does an excellent job of portraying Stratton, a "country" baseball player from Texas who makes it to the majors and then wounds himself while hunting for rabbits. Resulting in the amputation of his leg. June Allyson is so ... Read More
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True Story Marty Stratton, who pitched for the Chicago White Sox in the 1930's. After consective 15-win seasons in 1937-38, Marty's career was on the rise, when before the 1939 season, he had an accident that cost him his right leg. The movie shows how he, with the help of his wife, started pitching again. Through he never pitches in the majors again he did pitch again. Great movie to show how you can come back and do things you love even if you are disabled.
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I love old movies and what was not to love with Jimmy Stewart in this one.
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