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  1. Knute Rockne, All American

    Knute Rockne, All American

    1940 · Biography · 1h 38m

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      • By his mid-twenties Knute saves enough to attend obscure Notre Dame University, where he excels in football and chemistry. He and a teammate develop the forward pass as an offensive weapon while working as life guards on summer break and use it to upset heavily favored Army in a historic game.
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  2. Summaries. The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne. Lars Rockne and his family, including his four year old son Knute, emigrate to Chicago in 1892 from their native Norway. By his mid-twenties Knute saves enough to attend obscure Notre Dame University, where he excels in football and chemistry.

  3. Synopsis Young Norwegian immigrant Knute Rockne (Pat O'Brien) enrolls at Notre Dame University and becomes the first star of its hitherto undistinguished football team, inventing the forward...

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    • Pat O'brien
    • Lloyd Bacon
    • Warner Bros.
  4. Knute Rockne, All American is a 1940 American biographical film that tells the story of Knute Rockne, Notre Dame's legendary football coach. It stars Pat O'Brien as Rockne and Ronald Reagan as player George Gipp, as well as Gale Page, Donald Crisp, Albert Bassermann, Owen Davis Jr., Nick Lukats, Kane Richmond, William Marshall and William Byrne.

  5. Plot Synopsis. The film is best known for its famous line of dialogue, spoken by Rockne's most famous player, George Gipp (Ronald Reagan), a real-life football star who died young of pneumonia and provided an inspiring anecdote to his coach. Gipp tells his coach:

  6. Jul 28, 2015 · Review of 'Knute Rockne All American' (1940), a biopic on the Norwegian-American regarded as one of the greatest coaches in college football history starring Pat O'Brien with Ronald Reagan in a small role as George "The Gipper" Gipp.

  7. Synopsis by Hal Erickson. Knute Rockne-All American was Pat O'Brien's finest hour: thanks to intensive rehearsals and numerous makeup applications, he so closely resembled the title character that, in the words of Rockne's widow, "I almost expected him to make love with me".

  8. Knute Rockne–All American (1940) was one of the era’s best sports biopics, while Honeymoon for Three (1941) was an unremarkable comedy. Bacon got his one chance to direct Errol Flynn in Footsteps in the Dark (1941), which featured Flynn not as a swashbuckler or a…