Gentleman Jim (1942)

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.

Director

Raoul Walsh

Writers

Horace McCoy, Vincent Lawrence

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