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Legendary boxing champion James J. "Gentleman Jim" Corbett made his feature-film debut in Mittenthal's The Man From the Golden West. Corbett plays a San Francisco bank clerk (which, at one time, was the champ's real-life profession) who agrees to finance a gold prospector. As a result, the hero finds himself the principal suspect when several thousand dollars are embezzled from the bank. With equal application of brawn and brain, Corbett spends the rest of the picture trying to clear his name, an odyssey that takes him from the "Golden West" to the streets of New York. The final scenes in this blood-and-thunder epic find Gentleman Jim extricating himself from a trumped-up murder charge. For more on Jim Corbett, there is the lively (if hardly accurate) 1942 biopic Gentleman Jim, which starred Errol Flynn.