Babe Comes Home (1927)

Directed by

Ted Wilde

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h

Rated

NR

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a silent sports comedy about baseball legend Babe Ruth. He stars as himself in a story that mixes baseball action with a personal wager. The film is based on a short story about a bet involving soap.

lightheartedplayfulenergeticdatedsimplebreezywhimsical

What happens

Babe Comes Home is a 1927 American silent sports comedy film produced and distributed through First National and directed by Ted Wilde. The film is a baseball-styled sports film centering on Babe Ruth and Anna Q. Nilsson and was based on the short story "Said With Soap" by Gerald Beaumont. The film was released in the short-lived Vocafilm sound-on-film process, presumably a music and effects soundtrack but with no dialogue. Babe Comes Home is considered to be a lost film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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