Knute Rockne All American (A Modern Hero) (1940)

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Directed by

William K. Howard

Lloyd Bacon

Starring (View all)

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

John Litel
Committee Chairman

Henry O'Neill
Doctor Treating Knute

Owen Davis Jr.
Charles 'Gus' Dorais

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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 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 ... (more)

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"'Win just one for the Gipper.'You might hear this line from someone who is held back from joining friends on a mission or a journey they wish they could take part in. The words were uttered by future President Ronald Reagan in 1940's "Knute Rockne, All American." Reagan's character George Gipp makes this plea to the legendary football coach Knute Rockne as Gipp lay dying in his hospital bed. "