The "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.The "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.The "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.
Ralf Harolde
- John Tobin
- (as Ralph Harolds)
Charles Byer
- David Talmadge
- (as Charles Burt)
Ann Brody
- Mrs. Tony Marino
- (as Anne Brodie)
Sammy Blum
- Jimbo Jones
- (as Sam Blum)
Tom Cameron
- Deacon Flack
- (as Thomas Cameron)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaBabe Ruth received $25,000 for this, his first film. The sum was a large amount for the time, and Ruth refused to cash his paycheck and carried it around to show to friends. By the time Ruth had decided to cash his check for the film, the check bounced because of the film's poor box office results. Ruth shrugged off his loss and kept the check as a memento.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Fractured Flickers: Rod Serling (1963)
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Utter Malarkey
This film which purports to chronicle the childhood of the Babe is almost entirely a fabrication....he didn't grow up in some small town....he grew up near the waterfront docks of Baltimore,MD for the first few years of his life where his father owned and ran a saloon that catered to a very rough crowd.Young George was largely unsupervised most of the time and was continually getting into one scrape or another...as a result George Sr had him enrolled in the St. Mary's Industrial School for boys and pretty much stayed out of young George's life from then on...I'm sure this film's version made for better publicity for the up and coming Babe as well as for the Yankees...Colonel Ruppert was very mindful of his team's public image and making a film about the real version of Babe's young life at that time would have had a lot of negative consequences
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- armigerous-1
- Oct 7, 2007
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- Runtime1 hour 11 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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