

Gentleman Jim
The grandest story of the Naughty "Nineties" becomes the gayest picture of the Fighting "Forties!"
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.
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- Released
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- Language
- English
- bare knuckle boxing
- bank
- irish-american
- new orleans, louisiana
- biography
- salt lake city, utah
- train
- riverboat
- 19th century
- boxing
- benefactor
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR14 Nov 1942
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1 Oct 1948
NetherlandsNL
- PhysicalDVD14 Aug 2006
XCXC
- Theatrical5 Sept 1947
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Gentleman Jim was released on 14 November 1942.
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1- J9/10
John Chard
4/23/2020
If I get lost, I'll send up a rocket. Loosely based on the James J Corbett biography "The Roar Of The Crowd", Gentleman Jim is a wonderfully breezy picture that perfectly encapsulates not only the rise of the pugilistic prancer that was Corbett, but also the wind of change as regards the sport of boxing circa the 1890s. It was like trying to hit a ghost! The story follows Corbett (a perfectly cast Errol Fly…
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