He was a great baseball player, he was a great fisherman, and he was an ace in the Korean War and crash landed his plane. I'm pretty sure that's more interesting then, let's say, most movies about real people. Oh, I forgot about his secret visits to the hospital to talk to kids suffering from cancer and how he pretty much created the Jimmy Fund. You're probably right; it wouldn't work in a movie. It would have to be a 5 part mini-series.