Jim Thorpe: All American
by Michael Curtiz
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Actor: Burt Lancaster, Charles Bickford, Dick Wesson, Phyllis Thaxter, Steve CochranDirector: Michael Curtiz
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Everett Freeman
Writer: Everett Freeman
Writer: Douglas Morrow
Writer: Frank Davis
Writer: Jim Thorpe
Writer: Russell Birdwell
Writer: Vincent X. Flaherty
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Jim Thorpe: All American
Movie Review: Dated but insightful
Summary: 4 Stars
The production values are dated and the story is a self-consciously stilted portrayal of the life of the greatest American athlete, but that's a reflection of the time in which it was made. It's a good story and needs to be retold, but for its vintage this film is compelling.
Summary of Jim Thorpe: All American
The stirring life story of the American Indian who overcame personal and professional struggles to become one of the nation's greatest athletes. Burt Lancaster stars. Year: 1951 Director: Michael Curtiz Starring: Burt Lancaster, Charles Bickford, Steve CochranThis reverential, well-crafted 1951 biopic starring the hulky Burt Lancaster as Native American Olympian Thorpe is hardly the definitive word on one of our greatest track stars, but it does remind us how unfair and demeaning it once was for athletes of color. Concentrating on Thorpe's track and football victories (he also excelled at boxing, swimming, and golf), director Michael Curtiz and screenwriters Douglas Morrow and Everett Freeman (working from Thorpe's autobiography) chart their hero's rise from reservation poverty to Carlisle College track star to 1912 Olympic decathlon/pentathlon winner. Thorpe was stripped of his medals when it was learned that he had taken a few bucks as a football player. Lancaster is even better at playing Thorpe in the depths of drunkenness and despair than in his jock heyday. Charles Bickford is Pop Warner, the legendary coach who encouraged Thorpe to go for the gold, and Phyllis Thaxter appears as the athlete's supportive wife. Thorpe, who served as technical adviser, died two years after this film was released. Thirty years later, the International Olympic Committee overturned the earlier ruling and returned Thorpe's medals to his family. "What does it mean now?" a bitter Lancaster was quoted as saying at the time. --Glenn Lovell
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