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Director:
Mark Tinker
Writers (WGA):
Robert W. Creamer (book)
Kal Wagenheim (book)
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Release Date:
October 1991 (USA) more
Genre:
Biography | Drama | Sport more
Plot:
A film based on the home-run legend's life. | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won Primetime Emmy. Another 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Superior To Goodman! more (6 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Stephen Lang ... George Herman 'Babe' Ruth
Brian Doyle-Murray ... Marshall Hunt
Donald Moffat ... Jacob Ruppert
Yvonne Suhor ... Helen Woodford Ruth
Bruce Weitz ... Miller Huggins

Lisa Zane ... Claire Hodgson Ruth
William Lucking ... Brother Matthias

Neal McDonough ... Lou Gehrig
John Anderson ... Judge Landis
Pete Rose ... Ty Cobb
Cy Buynak ... Eddie Bennet
William Flatley ... Emil Fuchs
Stephen Prutting ... Jimmy Walker

Frankie Thorn ... Lady in Hotel
Thomas Wagner ... Bill Killefer
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
Germany:99 min | USA:120 min (including commercials)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Filming Locations:
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Company:
Elliot Friedgen & Company more

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Trivia:
According to a Sports Illustrated article, Rose impressed the film producers with his professionalism on the set. He knew his lines, delivered them without sounding like he was just reciting words and was able to easily adjust whenever the director suggested changes in pace on alternative takes. Rose attributed his ease in front of the camera to doing many commercials. "I do what the director tells me to do," he said. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: The movie depicts the Yankees winning the 1923 World Series on a game six, bottom-of-the-ninth, walk-off home run by Babe Ruth. In fact, Ruth hit his home run in the top of the first inning of a 6-4 Yankees win. more

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Superior To Goodman!, 16 April 1999
9/10
Author: Eric-62 from Athens, OH

This 1991 NBC-TV movie aired six months before John Goodman's big-screen version of the life of Babe Ruth came out. For my money, there is no comparison between the two. The TV production isn't perfect but it presents the Babe's story with more depth and complexity than Goodman's one-dimensional telling. I especially enjoyed the film's depiction of the complex love-hate relationship Ruth had with Yankee manager Miller Huggins, who always understood his star player's brilliance and also kept trying to point out why Ruth's own character flaws would never let him become a manager or leader of players. The TV-movie rightly notes how Ruth never fulfilled his dream of managing the Yankees because of his flaws, while the horrible Goodman version tries to push the falsehood that Ruth was denied what should have been his for the taking.

This film makes a great companion piece to "Eight Men Out" since the story starts with Ruth's arrival in New York in 1920, one year after the Black Sox Scandal and when his home run exploits literally saved baseball from ruin. Indeed, the continuity between the two films is even accentuated with John Anderson reprising his "Eight Men Out" role as Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis.

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