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Gentleman Jim: Directed by Raoul Walsh. With Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale. 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 top of the boxing world.
Gentleman Jim is a 1942 film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Errol Flynn as heavyweight boxing champion James J. Corbett (1866–1933). The supporting cast includes Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale, William Frawley, and Ward Bond as John L. Sullivan. The movie was based upon Corbett's 1894 autobiography, The Roar of the Crowd.
Gentleman Jim - (Original Trailer) Errol Flynn stars in Gentleman Jim (1942), the fanciful biography of 19th-Century boxing champion Jim Corbett, directed by Raoul Walsh.
Jim Corbett (Errol Flynn) is a bare-knuckles boxer, who is determined to rise above his station. Jim and his friend, Walter Lowrie (Jack Carson) are befriended by Vicki Ware (Alexis Smith),...
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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 top of the boxing world.
At a time when boxing is still little more than street brawling, fighter Jim Corbett battles to introduce the Marquis of Queensbury rules and transform pugilism into a sport. He attains his dream with a bare-knuckled fight against reigning heavyweight championJohn L. Sullivan (Ward Bond).
Errol Flynn as title character Jim Corbett, still just a San Francisco local hero, stands by as Vicky Ware (Alexis Smith) meets the touring world champ Sullivan (Ward Bond), then tangles with her and her less virile boyfriend (John Loder), in Raoul Walsh’s fanciful bio-pic Gentleman Jim, 1942.
Directed by legendary filmmaker Raoul Walsh, and starring Hollywood legend Errol Flynn as real-life boxer James J. Corbett (nickname: "Gentleman Jim") the bank clerk who became the World Champion, and who elevated boxing from bare-knuckled brawling to the sport of skill it is today.
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.
