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Gentleman Jim (1942)

The second box set of five Hollywood classics starring dashing action hero Errol Flynn, this one with a focus on war films and other highlights in his career. The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), his second film as a leading man, reunites him with the team that made The Sea Hawk, director Michael Curtiz and leading lady Olivia de Havilland, for a rousing 17th century war adventure based on Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem. He takes to the skies in the World War I drama The Dawn Patrol (1938), starring with David Niven as a devil-may-care flier facing certain death with every mission. Basil Rathbone co-stars as their hated commander. In Dive Bomber (1941), Flynn is a flight medical researcher who teams up with squadron commander Fred MacMurray to stop pilots from blacking out from the G-forces. In Gentleman Jim (1942) he's the real-life boxing legend James C. "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, the dapper sportsman who raised the profile of the backroom sport. And in Adventures of Don Juan (1948) he's an older, wiser, wittier version off the swashbuckling hero that made his fame. Each disc features bonus supplements. See Cult and Classic for details on individual films.

(1942) Errol Flynn plays boxing legend James C. "Gentleman Jim" Corbett in the biographical drama about the boxer who brought sport out of the backroom with his style in and out of the ring. Directed by Raoul Walsh, it co-stars Alexis Smith and Ward Bond as heavyweight champ John L. Sullivan.