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Gentleman Jim ()

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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 top of the boxing world.
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James J. Corbett
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Victoria Ware
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Walter Lowrie
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Pat Corbett
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Carlton De Witt
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Billy Delaney
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Buck Ware
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John L. Sullivan
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Anna Held (as Madeleine LeBeau)
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Harry Watson
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Father Burke
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Ma Corbett
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Harry Adams ...
Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
John Alban ...
Party Guest (uncredited)
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Lumberjack (uncredited)
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Olympic Club Member (uncredited)
Walter Bacon ...
Pedestrian (uncredited)
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Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
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Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Brandon Beach ...
Pedestrian (uncredited)
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Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
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Woman on Train (uncredited)
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Gambler in "Lucky Guy" (uncredited)
Lulu Mae Bohrman ...
Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
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Policeman (uncredited)
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Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
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Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
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Ringside Telegrapher (uncredited)
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Mrs. Geary (uncredited)
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Boy (uncredited)
James Carlisle ...
Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
Davison Clark ...
Auctioneer (uncredited)
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Judge Geary (uncredited)
Tom Coleman ...
Ship Passenger (uncredited)
Bing Conley ...
Bellringer (uncredited)
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Prisoner (uncredited)
Hal Craig ...
Telegrapher (uncredited)
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Duffy - Referee (uncredited)
Harry Crocker ...
Charles Crocker (uncredited)
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Manager (uncredited)
Oliver Cross ...
Party Guest (uncredited)
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Olympic Club Member (uncredited)
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Donovan (uncredited)
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Flannagan (uncredited)
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Renaud (uncredited)
Harry Denny ...
Party Guest (uncredited)
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Hogan (uncredited)
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Bellboy (uncredited)
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Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
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Beautiful Actress (uncredited)
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Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
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Reporter (uncredited)
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Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
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Ring Attendant (uncredited)
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Telegrapher (uncredited)
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Harry Corbett (uncredited)
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George Corbett (uncredited)
Charles Fogel ...
Pedestrian (uncredited)
Art Foster ...
Jack Burke (uncredited)
Jack Gardner ...
Usher (uncredited)
Kenneth Gibson ...
Pedestrian (uncredited)
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Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
Jack Gordon ...
Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
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Mrs. Casey (uncredited)
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Trainer (uncredited)
Marion Gray ...
Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
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Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
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Mug (uncredited)
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Championship Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Bert Hanlon ...
Clerk (uncredited)
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Smith (uncredited)
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Olympic Club Member (uncredited)
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Woman at Opera (uncredited)
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Reporter (uncredited)
Jack Herrick ...
Bodyguard, Donaldson's Partner (uncredited)
Herbert Heywood ...
Man on Telephone (uncredited)
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Undetermined Role (uncredited)
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Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
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Old Man (uncredited)
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The Mauler (uncredited)
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Party Guest (uncredited)
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Sutro (uncredited)
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Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
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Col. McLane (uncredited)
Richard Kipling ...
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Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
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Hoghead (uncredited)
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Harrigan (uncredited)
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Pickpocket (uncredited)
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Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
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Station Master (uncredited)
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Stockbroker (uncredited)
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Olympic Club Member (uncredited)
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Gov. Stanford (uncredited)
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Jake Kilrain (uncredited)
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Page Boy (uncredited)
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Championship Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Larry McGrath ...
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Pat McKee ...
Callahan - Ticket Taker (uncredited)
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Olympic Club Member (uncredited)
Russell Meeker ...
Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
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Headwaiter (uncredited)
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Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
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Undetermined Role (uncredited)
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Spectator - Sullivan Fight (uncredited)
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Spectator - Sullivan Fight (uncredited)
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Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
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Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Anton Northpole ...
Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
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Broker (uncredited)
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Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
Henry O'Hara ...
Colis Huntington (uncredited)
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Detective (uncredited)
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Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
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Dennis Simmons - Doorman (uncredited)
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Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
Lee Phelps ...
Detective (uncredited)
Marilyn Phillips ...
Mary Corbett (uncredited)
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Waiter (uncredited)
Paul Power ...
Party Guest (uncredited)
Catherine Price ...
Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
Edward Rickard ...
Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
Jack Roper ...
Donaldson (uncredited)
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Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
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Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
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Hansom Cab Driver (uncredited)
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Party Guest (uncredited)
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Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
Sammy Shack ...
Referee (uncredited)
George Sherwood ...
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
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Trainer (uncredited)
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Bank President McInnes (uncredited)
Freddie Steele ...
Referee (uncredited)
Count Stefenelli ...
Olympic Club Member (uncredited)
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Joe Choynski (uncredited)
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Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
Hal Taggart ...
Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
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Ring Announcer (uncredited)
Charlotte Treadway ...
Matron (uncredited)
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Stage Manager (uncredited)
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Referee (uncredited)
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Headwaiter (uncredited)
Chalky Williams ...
Lumberjack (uncredited)
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Gurney (uncredited)
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Actress (uncredited)
Jack Wise ...
Headwaiter (uncredited)
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Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
Victor Zimmerman ...
Reporter (uncredited)

Directed by

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Raoul Walsh

Written by

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Vincent Lawrence ... (screen play) and
Horace McCoy ... (screen play)
 
James J. Corbett ... (based upon the life of)

Produced by

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Robert Buckner ... producer

Music by

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Heinz Roemheld ... (music) (as H. Roemheld)

Cinematography by

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Sidney Hickox ... director of photography (as Sid Hickox)

Editing by

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Jack Killifer ... film editor

Editorial Department

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Don Siegel ... montages
James Leicester ... montage (uncredited)

Art Direction by

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Ted Smith

Set Decoration by

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Clarence Steensen ... (set decorations)

Costume Design by

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Milo Anderson ... (gowns)

Makeup Department

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Perc Westmore ... makeup artist

Production Management

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Frank Mattison ... production manager (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Russell Saunders ... assistant director (uncredited)

Sound Department

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C.A. Riggs ... sound

Stunts

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Mushy Callahan ... fight choreographer (uncredited)
Yakima Canutt ... stunts (uncredited)
Fred Graham ... stunts (uncredited)
Paul Stader ... stunt double Errol Flynn (uncredited) / stunts (uncredited)
Buster Wiles ... stunts (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Eugene Joseff ... costume jeweller (uncredited)

Music Department

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Leo F. Forbstein ... musical director
Ray Heindorf ... orchestral arrangements
Sam Perry ... composer: stock music (uncredited)

Additional Crew

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Ed Cochrane ... technical advisor
Hugh Cummings ... dialogue director
Mushy Callahan ... trainer: Errol Flynn (uncredited)
Henry Iblings ... double: Errol Flynn (uncredited)
Ed Lewis ... boxing double: Ward Bond (uncredited)
Freddie Steele ... double: Errol Flynn (uncredited)
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Storyline

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Plot Summary

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. Written by duke1029

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Taglines The grandest story of the Naughty "Nineties" becomes the gayest picture of the Fighting "Forties!" See more »
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Also Known As
  • Der freche Kavalier (Germany)
  • Gentleman Jim, der freche Kavalier (Germany)
  • El caballero audaz (Argentina)
  • Sendero de gloria (Venezuela)
  • 鉄腕ジム (Japan, Japanese title)
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  • 104 min
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Did You Know?

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Trivia Although production was shut down for a time after Errol Flynn suffered a mild heart attack, he came back and finished the picture. He was rarely doubled during the boxing sequences. See more »
Goofs In the fight scene at the beginning of the movie, when the police swarm in and begin beating the two fighters with their night sticks, you can clearly see several of them flexing as they are being swung. This is particularly evident with the officer on the left as he repeatedly hits "The Mauler". It's obvious they are made of rubber. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in The Men Who Made the Movies: Raoul Walsh (1973). See more »
Soundtracks The Wearing of the Green See more »
Quotes Judge Geary: We'll take in a few clean-cut boys from good families, and if we can't make you fighters into gentlemen, we'll try to make some gentlemen into fighters.
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