Underplayed Gems

Casey at the Bat (1916)

Casey at the Bat poster
Directed by
Lloyd Ingraham
Genre
drama film, silent film, sport film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A famous baseball player named Casey comes to the plate in a big game. The story follows his turn at bat based on a classic poem.

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What happens

Casey at the Bat is a lost 1916 American silent sports drama film produced by Fine Arts Studios in Hollywood, directed by Lloyd Ingraham, and starring DeWolf Hopper with principal support from Marguerite Marsh, Frank Bennett, and Kate Toncray. The photoplay's scenario, written by William E. Wing, was based on Ernest Thayer's 1888 baseball poem of the same title. The Library of Congress includes the film among the National Film Preservation Board's list of "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films" produced between 1912 and 1929. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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