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[N this film that very wooden actor Errol Flynn personifies | James J. Corbett, the boxer who . Made ring history in the United
: States by knocking out John L. Sullivan in 1892 in the first world championship conducted under Queensbury Rules. But Mr. Flynn’s woodenness extends only to his histrionic inability to register the more subtle shades of emotion: on his feet he is as light and as fast as a ballet dancer, and he also packs a hefty punch. Again, he is a very self confident young man, and so apparently was James Corbett. Mr. Flynn is therefore by no means unsuited to the starring role in this film, which consists of -almost nothing else except prize-fights, very excitingly and realistically photogtaphed. There is also a girl (Alexis Smith), who side-steps his advances till the last scene; an Irish father (Alan Hale), who eggs him on in his career; and one or two other characters who fit. well into the boisterous background. But it is the boxing that makes this a colour- : ful, and vigorous, though largely unauthentic, entertainment.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 309, 25 May 1945, Page 19
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183GENTLEMAN JIM New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 309, 25 May 1945, Page 19
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