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.
January 15, 1881 in Fresno, California, USA
5 July 1907, Callahan County, Texas, USA
December 19, 1897 in Yugoslavia
February 1, 1881 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
4 October 1895, Chicago, Illinois, USA
26 February 1905, Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA
2 January 1903, Pennsylvania, USA
19 July 1891, Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
26 January 1915, New York City, New York, USA
October 1, 1885 in Illinois, USA
6 July 1885, New York City, New York, USA
22 December 1889, Marianna, Arkansas, USA
25 December 1907, Tarnopol, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Ternopil, Ukraine]
18 March 1887, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
8 May 1893, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
7 December 1902, Chicago, Illinois, USA
February 7, 1894 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
27 October 1910, Carman, Manitoba, Canada
17 November 1891, Reims, France
10 February 1892, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
10 March 1898, Lancashire, England, UK
February 9, 1883 in Austin, Texas, USA
3 September 1890, Forest City, Pennsylvania, USA
October 5, 1907 in Vilna, Russia
15 July 1883, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
October 3, 1888 in Santa Ana, California, USA
18 July 1894, New York, USA
September 1, 1934 in Los Angeles, California, USA
8 March 1897, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
December 11, 1883 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
September 04, 2004
Superior -- if largely fact-free -- biopic with Flynn as the character should have been rather than as he was.
July 17, 2009
One of the most lovable, funny and enthusiastic of all film biographies.
March 31, 2007
...has all the exuberance, excitement, romance, and high good humor that is missing in many of today's so-called inspirational sports films.
October 18, 2010
The most kinetic of period pieces, the least pious of biopics, Walsh's Grand Illusion, an elegy for men trying to hang on to the notion of blood sports as games of honor
December 12, 2005
Errol Flynn excels as the brash, social-climbing Corbett.
August 09, 2009
Walsh trusts his viewers to value ability and wit over humility and pathos, resulting in one of the most roundly entertaining of all sports films.
January 04, 2005
Romanticized Jim Corbett boxing fable; Flynn is still fun to watch.
