Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Robert A. Taft of Hamilton County, Ohio last week wrote a letter that: 1) fulfilled a gentleman's agreement; 2) launched Ohio's Governor John William Bricker as a 1944 Presidential candidate...
...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...
...suppose, your privilege to state that "wits" report the "Gentleman" was to be dropped from the title of the picture Gentleman Jim but you have done so at your own risk and prejudice. It is definitely not your privilege to say that I quit work at my studio. Such a statement reflects most seriously on my professional integrity and has done me great harm in the motion-picture industry and elsewhere. Nor, despite whatever pipe dream gave you the notion, was any plumber blown through my cellar door. Your most vicious slur was that "even escape into the anonymity...
...only a rip-roaring gentleman could be equal to this man size job. And Spence Tracy, virility jutting from every mannerism and word, smoothly performs the operation. As a long-suffering fellow reporter, Tracy completely neutralizes La Hepburn's international and arty aspects and ends up in love with what's left. The personality conflict between the two begins at a Dodger ball game, made even funnier by a Hepburn who thought a squeeze play was a diplomatic mancuver, and ends on the wedding night, interrupted by a Hungarian refugee, who looked about as frustrated as Tracy might have been...