GENTLEMAN JIM - DVD-WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1942
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Plot: Because boxing is a considered an illegal and disreputable enterprise in 1880's San Francisco, wealthy and influential members of the prestigious Olympic Club vow to make the sport a "gentlemanly" one. They sponsor a brash, extroverted young bank clerk named Jim Corbett, who quickly becomes an accomplished fighter under the new Marquis of Queensbury Rules. Despite his success, the young Irish-American's social pretensions and boastful manner soon estrange him from his benefactors, who plot to give their conceited former protégé a well-deserved comeuppance. Despite this, his dazzlingly innovative footwork helps him to beat a succession of bigger and stronger men, and he finally finds himself fighting for the world's championship against his childhood idol, John L. Sullivan.
• Cast: Dan Tobey, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale, John Loder, William Frawley, Minor Watson, Ward Bond, Madeleine LeBeau, Rhys Williams, Arthur Shields, Dorothy Vaughan, Hooper Atchley, Clara Blandick, Monte Blue, Wade Boteler, Georgia Caine, Johnny Calkins, Wallis Clark, Hal Craig, Joseph Crehan, Harry Crocker, Wade Crosby, William B. Davidson, William 'Wee Willie' Davis, Jean Del Val, Joe Devlin, Peggy Diggins, Lester Dorr, Robert Fiske, Pat Flaherty, James Flavin, Art Foster, Jack Gardner, Mary Gordon, Frank Hagney, Bert Hanlon, Carl Harbaugh, Winifred Harris, Lew Harvey, Herbert Heywood, William Hopper, Si Jenks, Fred Kelsey, Milton Kibbee, Joe King, Ed Lewis, George Lloyd, John Maxwell, Frank Mayo, Mike Mazurki, Lon McCallister, Larry McGrath, Pat McKee, John Merkyl, Howard M. Mitchell, Frank Moran, Pat Moriarity, Jack Mower, Wedgwood Nowell, Henry O'Hara, Pat O'Malley, Emory Parnell, Lee Phelps, Marilyn Phillips, Jack Roper, S.Z. Sakall, Syd Saylor, George Sherwood, Edwin Stanley, Freddie Steele, Sammy Stein, Charlotte Treadway, Emmett Vogan, Dick Wessel, Leo White, Charles C. Wilson, Jack Wise, Victor Zimmerman, Raoul Walsh
• Director: Raoul Walsh
• Runtime: 1:44
• Company: Warner Archive Collection
• Media Format: Movie