Gentleman Jim
- 1942
- Tous publics
- 1h 44min
Alors que la boxe à mains nues entre dans l'ère moderne, Jim Corbett, un extraverti effronté, utilise de nouvelles règles et un jeu de jambes éblouissant et innovant pour se hisser au sommet... Tout lireAlors que la boxe à mains nues entre dans l'ère moderne, Jim Corbett, un extraverti effronté, utilise de nouvelles règles et un jeu de jambes éblouissant et innovant pour se hisser au sommet du monde de la boxe.Alors que la boxe à mains nues entre dans l'ère moderne, Jim Corbett, un extraverti effronté, utilise de nouvelles règles et un jeu de jambes éblouissant et innovant pour se hisser au sommet du monde de la boxe.
- Anna Held
- (as Madeleine LeBeau)
- Boxing Match Spectator
- (non crédité)
- Party Guest
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- Lumberjack
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- Olympic Club Member
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- Pedestrian
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- Boxing Match Spectator
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Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesAlthough production was shut down for a time after Errol Flynn suffered a mild heart attack, he came back and finished the picture.
- GaffesIn 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.
- Citations
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.
- Versions alternativesAlso available in a computer colorized version.
- ConnexionsFeatured in The Men Who Made the Movies: Raoul Walsh (1973)
- Bandes originalesThe Wearing of the Green
(ca 1798) (uncredited)
Traditional Irish folk tune
In the score during the opening credits and occasionally in the score
In the film, we first meet Corbett in 1887, when he was a 21-year-old, brash, conceited, boastful bank teller in San Francisco, toiling away with his buddy Walter (the always amusing Jack Carson). His life changes very quickly, however, when he is admitted as a protégé in the posh Olympic Club, much to the disdain of elegant society girl Vicky Ware (the beautiful Alexis Smith, who had already appeared opposite Flynn in 1941's "Dive Bomber" and would go on to star with him in 1945's "San Antonio"). After knocking out the ex-British heavyweight champion at the club's gym, Corbett, to the delight of his constantly brawling Irish family, begins to climb the rungs of the nascent boxing sport, his fancy footwork and 73-inch reach being two huge assets, while the newly incorporated Marquess of Queensberry rules helped transform what was up until then a rough-and-tumble melee into the more refined sport that we know today. Corbett's career, of course, culminates with his victory over the "Boston Strong Boy" John L. Sullivan in New Orleans, on September 7, 1892. And as depicted on film, with Ward Bond playing John L., what a tremendous bout this 21-round fight is!
Even those who don't like the sport of boxing, I feel, should enjoy "Gentleman Jim." The four fights depicted on screen (the one with the Brit champ; a hungover fight in Salt Lake City; a dockside matchup against Tony Choynski, preceding a police raid and riot; and the big bout in New Orleans) are well done, exciting, tense and marvelously shot by director Raoul Walsh, a man who excelled at both fast-moving action scenes AND period re-creations, both of which talents are utilized here. (This was Flynn's third film out of an eventual seven with the director.) Though hard hitting, the fights are not ugly to watch, unlike, say, those in the 1956 Humphrey Bogart film "The Harder They Fall" and Martin Scorsese's "Raging Bull." Rather, the fights in "Gentleman Jim" stress Corbett's remarkable agility and footwork ("That bloke jumps around like a jackrabbit," declares the Brit fighter; "He should've been a dancer," says an Irish priest later on), and Flynn, doing all his own stunts, bobs and weaves and skips and moves like the real deal. Indeed, during the big fight, he makes Sullivan look like a lumbering stumblebum, which, for the first four rounds at least, was how things supposedly really went down. Though the two men had just about the same reach, and though Sullivan outweighed Corbett by a good 34 pounds, Corbett's new "scientific approach" to boxing, so well shown in the film, ultimately won the day. But wait...an even better scene follows, in which Sullivan comes to Corbett's victory party, and the two men touchingly reveal to one another their mutual respect and admiration. It is a wonderful scene, and Bond and Flynn are both superb in it. I would be remiss if I didn't mention the fine work turned in by the film's uniformly fine cast (including Alan Hale as Corbett's dad and William Frawley as his bellicose manager) and note what a great-looking picture this is, with impressive sets (especially those in the ritzy Olympic Club) and a screen that is filled (as was Walsh's wont) with constant motion. A huge triumph for everyone concerned, the picture really is (you'll pardon the expression) a knockout!
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- El caballero audaz
- Lieux de tournage
- Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden - 301 N. Baldwin Avenue, Arcadia, Californie, États-Unis(Queen Anne Cottage seen in background when Corbett training outside to take on Sullivan)
- Société de production
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- Durée1 heure 44 minutes
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 1.37 : 1