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.
3 December 1900, Illinois, USA
20 August 1884, Sandusky, Ohio, USA
July 29, 1873 in Binghamton, New York, USA
22 December 1889, Marianna, Arkansas, USA
October 5, 1907 in Vilna, Russia
18 March 1887, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
May 5, 1894 in Hals, Denmark
28 January 1908, Illinois, USA
29 December 1892, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
10 June 1923, Antony, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
6 January 1902, Wisconsin, USA
26 October 1908, Springer, New Mexico, USA
September 04, 2004
Superior -- if largely fact-free -- biopic with Flynn as the character should have been rather than as he was.
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.
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.
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.
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
