Gentleman Jim
As bareknuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash, extroverted young bank clerk named Jim Corbett uses new rules, dazzlingly innovative footwork as well as 'scientific' methods to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world.
May 16, 1883 in Hertfordshire, England, UK
March 2, 1882 in Essex, England, UK
5 December 1906, Brooklyn, New York, USA
10 June 1923, Antony, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
5 November 1892, Edinburgh (Christian County), Illinois, USA
4 October 1895, Chicago, Illinois, USA
25 July 1896, Three Rivers, Michigan, USA
12 April 1896, Kingman, Arizona, USA
17 January 1898, Sandusky, Ohio, USA
7 December 1902, Chicago, Illinois, USA
20 August 1884, Sandusky, Ohio, USA
22 August 1905, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
4 December 1888, Dublin, Ireland
15 July 1883, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
March 11, 1918 in Spokane, Washington, USA
8 June 1921, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada
May 5, 1894 in Hals, Denmark
February 1, 1881 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
1 November 1904, Antwerp, Belgium
16 May 1882, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
26 February 1887, Burlington, Iowa, USA
November 22, 1880 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
October 5, 1907 in Vilna, Russia
31 December 1897, Clydach, Swansea, Wales, UK
June 16, 1888 in Dobbs Ferry, New York, USA
4 June 1876, on board an American ship in Hong Kong
February 9, 1883 in Austin, Texas, USA
August 09, 2009
Walsh trusts his viewers to value ability and wit over humility and pathos, resulting in one of the most roundly entertaining of all sports films.
January 04, 2005
Romanticized Jim Corbett boxing fable; Flynn is still fun to watch.
September 04, 2004
Superior -- if largely fact-free -- biopic with Flynn as the character should have been rather than as he was.
October 18, 2010
The most kinetic of period pieces, the least pious of biopics, Walsh's Grand Illusion, an elegy for men trying to hang on to the notion of blood sports as games of honor
July 17, 2009
One of the most lovable, funny and enthusiastic of all film biographies.
December 12, 2005
Errol Flynn excels as the brash, social-climbing Corbett.
March 31, 2007
...has all the exuberance, excitement, romance, and high good humor that is missing in many of today's so-called inspirational sports films.
