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Jim Thorpe -- All-American (1951)
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24 August 1951 (USA)
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The triumph and tragedy of Native Anerican Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality. full summary | add synopsis
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A story of triumph and courage that accurately depicts the life of Jim Thorpe.
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Burt Lancaster | ... | Jim Thorpe |
 | Charles Bickford | ... | Glenn S. 'Pop' Warner |
| Steve Cochran | ... | Peter Allendine |
| Phyllis Thaxter | ... | Margaret Miller |
 | Dick Wesson | ... | Ed Guyac |
| Jack Big Head | ... | Little Boy Who Walk Like Bear (as Jack Bighead) |
| Sonny Chorre | ... | Wally Denny (as Suni Warcloud) |
| Al Mejia | ... | Louis Tewanema |
| Hubie Kerns | ... | Tom Ashenbrunner |
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Man of Bronze (UK)
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107 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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At the Carlisle Indian School, when we first see Jim at the blackboard, he is erasing a formula: I = E/R. This is Ohm's law (1827), in which, in an electrical circuit, you can determine I (current, in amps), E (voltage, in volts), or R (resistance, in ohms) by knowing two of the three values.
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Charlotte Thorpe:
[to Jim's father] You're his father. You taught him all the things he likes to do. Now teach him what he has to do!
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Referenced in "The Golden Girls: Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas (#5.12)" (1989)
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Yankee Doodle
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Burt Lancaster and Charles Bickford give convincing portrayals as Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner respectively. It is too bad that Indians could not have played many of the characters but then this was 1951. Thorpe himself was an advisor bringing credibility to the film related to its accuracy.