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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Al Mejia
Al Mejia appears in Jim Thorpe
All-American, the film adaptation of the book by Jim Thorpe, Maxwell Stiles This Is My Story, first published in 1949.
All-American, the film adaptation of the book by Jim Thorpe, Maxwell Stiles This Is My Story, first published in 1949.
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This Is My Story
Jim Thorpe, Maxwell Stiles, 1949
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Michael Curtiz, 1951
Burt Lancaster stars as the legendary athlete who rises from poverty on a Native American reservation to graduate from college and win more gold medals than any other athlete in the 1912 Olympics. Thorpe’s life is a constant struggle against racial prejudice: Despite his talent and his desire to coach, no one will hire an American Indian; and his Olympic medals are taken from him because he had accepted money to play basketball to help pay for college.