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.
September 23, 1876 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
29 July 1894, New York City, New York, USA
31 December 1897, Clydach, Swansea, Wales, UK
January 27, 1896 in Ballinamore, County Leitrim, Ireland
25 July 1896, Three Rivers, Michigan, USA
24 May 1889, County Cork, Ireland
15 February 1896, Dublin, Ireland
17 November 1891, Reims, France
October 30, 1876 in San Francisco, California, USA
September 1, 1934 in Los Angeles, California, USA
May 16, 1883 in Hertfordshire, England, UK
8 May 1893, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
18 March 1887, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
8 March 1897, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
15 May 1893, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
3 September 1890, Forest City, Pennsylvania, USA
February 1, 1881 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
5 November 1890, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
9 April 1903, Benkelman, Nebraska, USA
January 12, 1897 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
5 July 1907, Callahan County, Texas, USA
12 April 1896, Kingman, Arizona, USA
November 22, 1880 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
September 5, 1890 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
11 January 1877, Sydney, Australia
26 January 1915, New York City, New York, USA
January 15, 1881 in Fresno, California, USA
1 April 1905, New York City, New York, USA
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.
September 04, 2004
Superior -- if largely fact-free -- biopic with Flynn as the character should have been rather than as he was.
December 12, 2005
Errol Flynn excels as the brash, social-climbing Corbett.
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.
July 17, 2009
One of the most lovable, funny and enthusiastic of all film biographies.
January 04, 2005
Romanticized Jim Corbett boxing fable; Flynn is still fun to watch.
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
