Gentleman Jim (1942)
The grandest story of the Naughty "Nineties" becomes the gayest picture of the Fighting "Forties!"
Genre : Comedy, Drama
Runtime : 1H 44M
Director : Raoul Walsh
Writer : Vincent Lawrence, Horace McCoy
Synopsis
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.
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