Knute Rockne All American | Pat O'Brien, Gale Page | An Emotional, Really Nice Sports Film

Knute Rockne All American | Pat O'Brien, Gale Page | Inspiring - Good Football History

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	Knute Rockne All American Pat O'Brien, Gale Page Warner Home Video, 2006 average customer review:based on 22 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

"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 powerhouse. But victories alone do not mean success to Rockne. He wants to shape his players into responsible and honorable men. This famed sports biopic combines a passion for the game (and footage of actual Notre Dame contests) with two superb performances: Pat O'Brien in the title role and Ronald Reagan as George Gipp, the gifted but doomed halfback whose deathbed plea is "win just one for the Gipper." The line remains one of cinema's most memorable. And for the rest of his life, Reagan would often be called the Gipper.

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An Emotional, Really Nice Sports Film

You don't have to be a Notre Dame football fan to enjoy this, but, strictly as a football fan in general, this was fun to watch. It almost makes me a Fighting Irish devotee. If you can't get caught up in the emotion in this film, gridiron fan or not, you better check your pulse because this is an emotional film with some very touching scenes.

As a sports fan, I loved watching the classic footage of early college games. They had some pretty wild plays back then with a lot of laterals. They interspersed that footage with Pat O'Brien shown as head coach Knute Rockne on the sidelines and some of the players, such as George Gipp (Ronald Reagan).

Reagan gets pretty good billing in this film but his part really isn't that large. O'Brien is the only actor with a large role in here. The rest - all playing nice characters - include Gale Page as Rockne's wife "Bonnie;" Donald Crisp, as the Notre Dame's "Father John Callahan;" Albert Bassermann as chemistry professor "Father Nieuwland" and Reagan, as Gipp, perhaps Notre Dame's most talented and famous player ever.

What this film does nicely is balance the personal story with the football. Neither angle is overdone. The characters in here all people you can root for, as there are no villains. On my last look, it was interesting to discover Johnny Sheffield - Tarzan's son - playing Rockne at the age of seven and to see George Reeves, TV's Superman, as one of the players.

There have been very few football movies made in Hollywood, for some reason, and precious few good ones. Most are modern-day ones filled with profanity. This is one of the few good ones, still safe for the kids to watch.

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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.

Truly All American

This is one of the most classic american sports stories. Pride of the Yankees also makes a great view.

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.

O'Brien plays Rockne

Earlier in my life, I actually saw Pat O'Brien in person at a summer playhouse in Denver and he reinacted a few of the speeches, which he did of Knute Rockne in this film. It was great to see them again and now I can watch over & over, anytime I want. Also, a young Ronald Reagan plays a very interesting "Gipper" character. Didn't realize "the Gipper" was a walk-on at Notre Dame, ... or is that part just a Hollywood fantasy? Loved the old football footage.

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