Jim Thorpe
All-American
Michael Curtiz, 1951
This Is My Story
Jim Thorpe, Maxwell Stiles, 1949
Jim Thorpe – All-American is a movie directed by Michael Curtiz in 1951 and based on Jim Thorpe’s autobiography, told by Thorpe and Maxwell Stiles, and published in the September issue of Sports World Magazine in 1949. The movie features Burt Lancaster, Charles Bickford, Steve Cochran, Phyllis Thaxter, Dick Wesson, Jack Big Head, and others.
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Storyline
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.
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Year
1951
Minutes
107
Movie Rate
6.90
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Movie
Jim Thorpe
All-American
Director: Michael Curtiz
Country: USA
Year: 1951
Length: 1h47m
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Year
1949
Pages
10
Book Rate
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Book
This Is My Story
Author: Jim Thorpe, Maxwell Stiles
Country: USA
First published in: 1949
Length: 10 pages
Genre: Biography
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One reply on “Jim Thorpe – All-American (1951)”
The source material for the script of ‘Jim Thorpe All-American’ was originally written by Jim Thorpe and Russell J. Birdwell and sold to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1929 to produce a film starring Clark Gable titled ‘Red Son of Carlisle’. This movie was never produced as the Great Depression settled in on America. Years later, in 1949, Warner Brothers Studios announced that it had purchased the rights of Thorpe’s life story from MGM and was planning to make the film. So the unpublished material written by Thorpe and Birdwell would actually be the basis for the biopic starring Burt Lancaster.