Something went wrong
Try again later.
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.
20 August 1884, Sandusky, Ohio, USA
December 11, 1883 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
16 May 1882, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
5 November 1890, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
15 May 1893, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
6 July 1885, New York City, New York, USA
29 July 1894, New York City, New York, USA
May 16, 1883 in Hertfordshire, England, UK
13 May 1891, Brooklyn, New York, USA
6 January 1902, Wisconsin, USA
11 March 1871, Sacramento, California, USA
February 7, 1894 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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.
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.
December 12, 2005
Errol Flynn excels as the brash, social-climbing Corbett.
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
September 04, 2004
Superior -- if largely fact-free -- biopic with Flynn as the character should have been rather than as he was.