Headin' Home
| Headin' Home | |
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| Directed by | Lawrence C. Windom |
| Written by | Arthur "Bugs" Baer Earle Browne (story) |
| Produced by | William Shea (producer) Herbert H. Yudkin (producer) |
| Starring | See below |
| Cinematography | Ollie Leach |
Production company | Kessel & Baumann |
| Distributed by | Yankee Photo Corporation |
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Running time | 55 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Headin' Home is a 1920 American silent biopic sports film directed by Lawrence C. Windom.[1][2][3][4] It attempts to create a mythology surrounding the life of baseball player Babe Ruth.
The screenplay was written by Arthur "Bugs" Baer from a story by Earle Browne. Besides Ruth, it stars Ruth Taylor, William Sheer, and Margaret Seddon.
It was filmed largely in Haverstraw, New York
Plot summary
[edit]Ruth stars in the film, playing himself, but the details of his life are completely fictionalized. In the film, Ruth comes from a small country town and has a loving home life, but in real life, he grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and spent most of his childhood in a reformatory.[5] In the film, shades of the 1984 baseball movie The Natural, Ruth cuts down a tree to make his own bat.
Cast
[edit]- Babe Ruth as Babe
- Ruth Taylor as Mildred Tobin
- William Sheer as Harry Knight
- Margaret Seddon as Babe's Mother
- Frances Victory as Pigtails
- James A. Marcus as Simon Tobin
- Ralf Harolde as John Tobin
- Charles Byer as David Talmadge
- George Halpin as Doc Hedges / The Constable / Dog Catcher
- William J. Gross as Eliar Lott
- Walter Lawrence as Tony Marino
- Ann Brody as Mrs. Tony Marino
- Ricca Allen as Almira Worters
- Sammy Blum as Jimbo Jones
- Ethel Kerwin as Kitty Wilson
- Tom Cameron as Deacon Flack
- Charles J. Hunt as Reverend David Talmadge
- William Shea
- Raoul Walsh as supervisor
See also
[edit]- Babe Comes Home (1927), also starring Babe Ruth
- List of baseball films
References
[edit]External links
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- Headin' Home at IMDb
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