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

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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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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