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Jim Thorpe-All American . M. Curtiz. 1951.
True Story. VHS. 107 minutes. (Burt Lancaster, Charles Bickford.)
True story of Native American Jim Thorpe, who rose from an Oklahoma reservation to become a collegiate, Olympic, and professional athletic star. After his medals are stripped on a technicality and his dream of coaching is shattered, Thorpe's life begins to unravel. His marriage to his college sweetheart ends, and he is a forgotten figure, except by Glenn 'Pop' Warner, his coach at Carlisle College . (source: tape case copy)
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