Gentleman Jim

Errol Flynn portrays James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, the bank clerk-turned-bare-knuckle boxer in 1880s San Francisco who helped boxing transition from an outlaw sport to mainstream respectability, culminating in his title fight against John L. Sullivan (Ward Bond), governed under the newly adopted Marquis of Queensbury rules. Alexis Smith is society girl Victoria Ware, who at first doesn't like the cut of Jim's jib, but in time is won over by his sincerity and sensitivity.