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...locomotive bell used in the Corbett-Sullivan fight...
...Champion. From 37 years of collecting and expertizing, Fleischer has two conclusions: 1) fighting is the greatest of all sports, 2) Jack Johnson is the greatest fighter of all time. After Johnson, Nat ranks Jeffries, then Fitzsimmons, Sullivan, Jack Sharkey, Dempsey, Louis, Corbett, Tunney, Burns...
...great Booth himself gave a blackface performance at Bel Air, Md. P. T. Barnum once corked his own face and appeared in such early favorites as Zip Coon, The Raccoon Hunt, Gittin' Up Stairs. Stephen Foster wrote his masterpieces for minstrels. John Philip Sousa, Gentleman Jim Corbett and George M. Cohan's father all did their blackface stints...
Gentleman Jim (Warner) is a fight fan's meat and a thumping good show. It films some of the best boxing scenes ever shown on the screen. As Gentleman Jim Corbett, the San Francisco bank clerk who introduced footwork and Shakespeare to the ring and knocked out John L. Sullivan in 21 immortal rounds, Errol Flynn flashes the fanciest left Hollywood has produced. Warners has surrounded him with the hilarious rowdyism of the prizefighting game in the '903, including a superb performance by Ward Bond as the great John L. himself...
Love (blonde, queenly Alexis Smith) and the facts of Corbett's life are allowed to interfere only slightly in Pugilist Flynn's career, but fans will not complain. They can see oldtime titans destroy each other with bare knuckles in gaslit, neolithic exhibitions of carnage-under-contract. Gentleman Jim's footwork is a joy to behold (and is beheld from all camera angles). The pictured versions of his classic bouts with Joe Choynski, Jake Kilrain, et al. seem, to modern eyes, even to improve on the originals...