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The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.
Keywords
sports
american football
indian tribe
olympic athlete
college athlete
athlete
Casts

Burt Lancaster
Jim Thorpe

Charles Bickford
Glenn S. 'Pop' Warner

Steve Cochran
Peter Allendine

Phyllis Thaxter
Margaret Miller

Dick Wesson
Ed Guyac

Jack Big Head
Little Boy Who Walk Like Bear (as Jack Bighead)
Sonny Chorre
Wally Denny (as Suni Warcloud)
Al Mejia
Louis Tewanema
Hubie Kerns
Tom Ashenbrunner
Crews

Michael Curtiz
Director
Russell Birdwell
Novel

Jim Thorpe
Novel
Gordon Bau
Makeup Artist
Oliver S. Garretson
Sound
Ellsworth Fredericks
Camera Operator
Murray Cutter
Orchestrator

Jim Thorpe
Technical Advisor
William Wallace
Set Decoration

Max Steiner
Original Music Composer
Douglas Morrow
Screenplay
Douglas Morrow
Story
Everett Freeman
Screenplay
Vincent X. Flaherty
Story
David Curtiz
Second Unit Director
Everett Freeman
Producer

Ernest Haller
Director of Photography
Folmar Blangsted
Editor
Edward Carrere
Art Direction
Bertram Tuttle
Supervising Art Director
Frank Davis
Dialogue
Backdrops & Posters

