Product Description: I've decided to take up coaching as my life work, Knute Rockne says. Coach he does, revolutionizing football with his strategies, winning close to 90 percent of his games, and helping establish the University of Notre Dame's Fighting Irish as a gridiron
Amazon.com: Long before Rocky Balboa went the distance, there was the original Rock--as in Knute Rockne. His story, a classic 1940 biopic, combines vintage gridiron action with heart-tugging sentiment. Yup, this is the film with the famous halftime pep talk and Ronald Reagan's "win just one for the Gipper" deathbed plea. Yeah, it's corny. But so what. Lloyd Bacon, one of Hollywood's ablest craftsmen (42nd Street), directed with just the right scrappy disregard for genre conventions. Reagan, in his third best vehicle (behind King's Row and The Killers), plays George Gipp, the Fighting Irish's first All- American, who died of pneumonia in 1920; the always-reliable Pat O'Brien plays Notre Dame coach Rockne as a living, breathing icon--part father confessor, part Patton, part idealized father figure. Before he spurs the lads to victory, he changes the face of the sport--by inventing the forward pass, no less. --Glenn Lovell
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Rating: - Inspiring - Good Football History
This is a great movie for all sports fans, but especially football fans. It is also a great history lesson of college football. Notre Dame has been a storied program (current times not withstanding) and it gives an insight as to why so many people in the past love Notre Dame football.
Rating: - Knute Rockne
This is an excellent film. Fun to watch. If you like college football today and enjoy history. This is great fun. If you like Notre Dame it's a must for your library.
Rating: - Truly All American
This is one of the most classic american sports stories. Pride of the Yankees also makes a great view.
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