Headin' Home

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This article is about the 1920 film. For the 2018 film about the Israel national baseball team, see Heading Home (2018 film). For the album by Jimmy Owens, see Headin' Home (Jimmy Owens album).
Headin' Home
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Directed byLawrence C. Windom
Written byArthur "Bugs" Baer
(story)
Produced byWilliam Shea (producer)
(producer)
StarringSee below
CinematographyOllie Leach
Production
company
Kessel & Baumann
Distributed byYankee Photo Corporation
Release date
  • September 19, 1920 (1920-09-19)
Running time
55 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)
Headin' Home

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 .

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.[5] 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[]

References[]

  1. ^ Headin’ Home (1920) A Silent Film Review – Movies Silently
  2. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Headin’ Home at silentera.com
  3. ^ Headin' Home (1920) - TCM.com
  4. ^ Beyond The Box Office: Headin' Home (1920) - Lookout Landing
  5. ^ [1], Sacramento Bee.

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