Gentleman Jim

Year: 1942

Country: USA

Tagline: The grandest story of the Naughty "Nineties" becomes the gayest picture of the Fighting "Forties!"

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.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.

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