
The Fighter(2010)
Boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being KO'd by drugs and crime.


“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.

Errol Flynn
James J. Corbett

Alexis Smith
Victoria Ware

Jack Carson
Walter Lawrie

Alan Hale
Pat Corbett

John Loder
Carlton De Witt

William Frawley
Billy Delaney

Minor Watson
Buck Ware

Ward Bond
John L. Sullivan

Madeleine Lebeau
Anna Held

Rhys Williams
Harry Watson
Gentleman Jim is a drama, comedy film released in 1942 exploring themes of bare knuckle boxing, bank, irish-american, new orleans, louisiana, biography, salt lake city, utah. Directed by Raoul Walsh, it stars Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson. 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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