Gentleman Jim

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Gentleman Jim

1942,

1h 44m,

Biography/

Drama/

Romance

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Jim Corbett is a bare-knuckles boxer, who is determined to rise above his station. Jim and his friend, Walter Lowrie are befriended by Vicki Ware, whose father, Buck Ware runs the elegant Olympic Boxing Club. Ware, impressed by Jim, invites the fighter to become a member. Jim grows as a boxer, but when his boasting estranges him from the club, he sets out to prove himself in a match against boxing's reigning champion.

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Mae Tinée

Chicago Tribune

Dec 8, 2020

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

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Thomas M. Pryor

New York Times

Dec 8, 2020

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.

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Irene Thirer

New York Daily News

Dec 8, 2020

3/4

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.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Jan 9, 2024

3/4

Errol Flynn is just jim-dandy in this entertaining film.

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Josephine O'Neill

Daily Telegraph (Australia)

Dec 8, 2020

Out of the blithely flctionised life of boxer James J. Corbett, otherwise "Gentleman Jim," Warners have made a robust, back-slapping, exciting movie which contains some of the most exciting fight scenes that ever thrilled the amateur.

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Rey S

Feb 1, 2018

Best boxing movie of the 1940's!

Leia S

Mar 31, 2017

Might be my favorite Flynn movie.

Theodore M

Mar 17, 2017

My opinion--- Raoul Walsh is definitely a virtuoso and has realized a true masterpiece of the 7th art in every respect, it is an elegant film and wonderfully realized by this great master of the cinema, the film is also the representation and the incarnation of the American dream of the time. This film was also and wonderfully served by the masterful interpretation of Errol Flynn which deploys all his charisma and all the elegance of his character, his ardor and his sympathy splashes the screen of his whole class representing the life of the boxer James J. Corbett, of which Raoul Walsh was inspired. Superb scenes of unforgettable pugilates will also be of a purity. This masterpiece of cinema will forever be eternal for all the wonderful points I have just written, a film to discover or rediscover. In conclusion; For me it's one of the best boxing movies ever made by Hollywood, an unforgettable film both for its realization, its incredibly beautiful interpretation of an unforgettable Errol Flynn.

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Raoul Walsh

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Errol Flynn

James J. Corbett

Alexis Smith

Victoria Ware

Jack Carson

Walter Lowrie

Alan Hale

Pat Corbett

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Synopsis

Jim Corbett is a bare-knuckles boxer, who is determined to rise above his station. Jim and his friend, Walter Lowrie are befriended by Vicki Ware, whose father, Buck Ware runs the elegant Olympic Boxing Club. Ware, impressed by Jim, invites the fighter to become a member. Jim grows as a boxer, but when his boasting estranges him from the club, he sets out to prove himself in a match against boxing's reigning champion.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Producer: Robert Buckner
Screenwriter: Vincent Lawrence, Horace McCoy
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Production Co: First National, Warner Brothers/Seven Arts
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 14, 1942, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 8, 2016
Runtime: 1h 44m

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