Casey at the Bat (1927)
- Directed by
- Monte Brice
- Genre
- silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A famous baseball player from a poem has a big game. The story follows his time at bat and what happens with his team.
sportslightheartedwhimsicalold-fashionedunderstatedplayfulnostalgicsimple
What happens
Casey at the Bat is a 1927 American silent film, directed by Monte Brice, written by Ernest Thayer and based on the 1888 baseball poem of the same name. The picture stars Wallace Beery, Ford Sterling, ZaSu Pitts and Sterling Holloway in his film debut. Surviving period advertisements indicate Eddie Sutherland may have been slated as director before Brice. A copy was preserved at the Library of Congress. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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