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Knute Rockne All American (1940)
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5 October 1940 (USA)
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The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne. full summary | add synopsis
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1 win
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AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movie Quotes
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ESPN Films Exhumation of "The Gipper's" Remains
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 11 October 2007)
(From Extra. 4 November 2009, 4:45 AM, PST)
ESPN Films Exhumation of "The Gipper's" Remains
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An American for All Ages-Knute Shines ****
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Pat O'Brien | ... | Knute Rockne |
| Gale Page | ... | Bonnie Skiles Rockne |
 | Ronald Reagan | ... | George Gipp |
| Donald Crisp | ... | Father John Callahan, C.S.C |
| Albert Bassermann | ... | Father Julius Nieuwland (as Albert Basserman) |
| John Litel | ... | Committee Chairman |
| Henry O'Neill | ... | Doctor |
| Owen Davis Jr. | ... | Gus Dorais |
| John Qualen | ... | Lars Knutson Rockne |
| Dorothy Tree | ... | Martha Rockne |
| Johnny Sheffield | ... | Knute, Age 7 (as John Sheffield) |
| Moreau Choir of Notre Dame | ... | Themselves |
| Nick Lukats | ... | Four Horseman |
| Kane Richmond | ... | Four Horseman |
| William Marshall | ... | Four Horseman |
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A Modern Hero (UK)
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98 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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William Holden, John Wayne, Robert Young, and Robert Cummings were considered for the role of George Gipp, but only Dennis Morgan and Ronald Reagan tested for it, with Morgan having the edge until the last minute.
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George Gipp:
Win one for the Gipper!
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Referenced in Love Games (1976)
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Aura Lee
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Pat O'Brien had his best role ever as Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne. From humble beginnings, Rockne entered Notre Dame as a student circa 1910. He is into chemistry but becomes a marvelous football player and hero.
Upon graduation, he teaches chemistry at the school but he has got the football fever that tugs at him, this forces him to give up chemistry to pursue his dream of coaching the game. In a way, too bad, the school probably lost a great chemistry teacher-certainly far better and nicer than the one I had in high school. (Erasmus Hall in Brooklyn to be exact.)
He motivates his students. He will not tolerate academic underachievement. He is a coach for all seasons.
O'Brien captures that common kind touch. One of his students, George Gipp, is memorably played in a fine brief supporting performance by Ronald Reagan.
The years pass and the achievements run high-but Knute remains the same kind coach who testifies before Congress when football is called into question.
Donald Crisp is outstanding as a Notre Dame priest who knew that Rockne was destined to coach football. Albert Basserman is adequate, but his Jewish accent in the portrayal of a priest is awkward at best. Basserman was nominated that year in the supporting category for "Foreign Correspondent."
Rockne's tragic death, in a plane crash, robbed the world of many more years of a totally professionally wonderful human-being. The film is great.