Radio review – SGP - “Gentleman Jim” (1944) **1/2

Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith and Ward Bond reprise their roles in a half hour adaptation which keeps a lot of good bits but is just too small to recapture the charm of the film. Some of this is unavoidable – we can’t see the period detail or the boxing – but mostly it’s because of the time thing (eg the romance between Errol and Smith is given short shrift). It doesn’t help the adaptation is not done with particular imagination, although the actors are all in good form. There’s one bit where Errol performs the scene where he wakes up hungover and the audience gives out this massive laugh – he must have been doing some visual bit which we don’t pick up on.