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Headin' Home
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Wikipedia article
'Headin' Home' is a 1920 American silent biopic sports film directed by Lawrence C. Windom.[http://moviessilently.com/2016/06/05/headin-home-1920-a-silent-film-review/ Headin Home (1920) A Silent Film Review Movies Silently][http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/H/HeadinHome1920.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'Headin Home'] at silentera.com[http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/495485/Headin-Home/articles.html Headin' Home (1920) TCM.com][https://www.lookoutlanding.com/2015/12/31/10690734/beyond-the-box-office-headin-home-1920 Beyond The Box Office: Headin' Home (1920) Lookout Landing] 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
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.[http://sacbee.com/172/story/149603.html], 'Sacramento Bee'. In the film, shades of the 1984 baseball movie 'The Natural', Ruth cuts down a tree to make his own bat.
Cast
*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
*'Babe Comes Home' (1927), also starring Babe Ruth
References
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