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Gentleman Jim

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Original title

Gentleman Jim

Year

1942

Running time

104 min.

Country

United States

Director

Raoul Walsh

Screenwriter

Vincent Lawrence, Horace McCoy. Autobiography: James J. Corbett

Cast

Music

Heinz Roemheld

Cinematography

Sidney Hickox (B&W)

Producer

Warner Bros.

Genre

Drama. Comedy | Sports. Boxing. Biography. 19th Century

Synopsis

Because boxing is a considered an illegal and disreputable enterprise in 1880's San Francisco, wealthy and influential members of the prestigious Olympic Club vow to make the sport a "gentlemanly" one. They sponsor a brash, extroverted young bank clerk named Jim Corbett, who quickly becomes an accomplished fighter under the new Marquis of Queensbury Rules. Despite his success, the young Irish-American's social pretensions and boastful manner soon estrange him from his benefactors, who plot to give their conceited former protege a well-deserved comeuppance. Despite this, his dazzlingly innovative footwork helps him to beat a succession of bigger and stronger men, and he finally finds himself fighting for the world's championship against his childhood idol, John L. Sullivan.

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Rankings Position

#27 Best Biopics/Biographical Movies
#72 Best Movies of the '40s
#114 Best Comedy Movies

Critics' reviews

"It's all around excellent entertainment and I hope you'll take it in"

Mae Tinee: Chicago Tribune
"Errol Flynn is to the manner drawn as the impeccable Gentleman Jim, and Ward Bond has the richest role of his long and serviceable career as the blustering Sullivan."

The New York Times
"Gentleman Jim is both dramatic and amusing and will be particularly interesting to those who remember him and to those who would like to know about the first great boxer who relied upon brain and skill to overcome brawn."

Irene Thirer: New York Daily News
"The boxing scenes achieve striking reality, and when he is observed in them, Flynn seems especially facile, which is just what the portrayal needs in its pugilistic aspects."

Edwin Schallert: Los Angeles Times
"There's much that's fiction in Gentleman Jim, also much redundancy, yet Warner Bros, has managed to turn out a good boxofflce film based on the life of James J. Corbett."

Herm Schoenfeld: Variety
"One of the best sports biopics ever. Historically inaccurate, but a directorial field day for director Raoul Walsh, who excelled at action direction and also period nostalgia."

TV Guide
"Despite claiming to be based on its inspiration's autobiography, the movie is somewhat fictionalised (although the actual fights were re-created with some care), and pacily directed by action maestro Raoul Walsh."

Adrian Turner: Radio Times
"Lavish, lustrous and none too accurate historically, it's Hollywood at its cavalier best, with a perfectly judged performance from Flynn, brash yet engaging, as the social-climbing Corbett."

Tom Milne: Time Out

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