Gentleman Jim

“The grandest story of the Naughty "Nineties" becomes the gayest picture of the Fighting "Forties!"”

7.1(68)19421h 44m

DramaComedy

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.

Director

Raoul Walsh

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Cast

Errol Flynn

James J. Corbett

Alexis Smith

Victoria Ware

Jack Carson

Walter Lawrie

Alan Hale

Pat Corbett

John Loder

Carlton De Witt

William Frawley

Billy Delaney

Minor Watson

Buck Ware

Ward Bond

John L. Sullivan

Madeleine Lebeau

Anna Held

Rhys Williams

Harry Watson

Monte Blue

Gambler in "Lucky Guy"

Pat Flaherty

Harry Corbett

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1 review

John Chard

5y ago

9.0

If I get lost, I'll send up a rocket. Loosely based on the James J Corbett biography "The Roar Of The Crowd", Gentleman Jim is a wonderfully breezy picture that perfectly encapsulates not only the rise of the pugilistic prancer that was Corbett, but also the wind of change as regards the sport of boxing circa the 1890s. It was like trying to hit a ghost! The story follows Corbett (a perf...