Somewhat O/T: Interesting baseball movies on TMC tonight

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Posted By: D. C. Markel

I've never seen or heard of this film, but it's called "Headin' Home" filmed in 1920 featuring Babe Ruth. It's on Turner Movie Classics at midnight Eastern Time (11:00 pm central, 9:00 pm pacific). I plan to record it on my DVR.

Also, "Safe At Home" featuring Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris is on at 10:00 pm eastern.

After the Ruth movie there is another silent film entitled "His Last Game" (1909) where a Native American baseball player resists gamblers' demands that he throw a game and finally another called "The Ball Player and the Bandit", filmed in (1912).

http://www.tcm.com/schedule/index.jsp?startDate=10/07/2007&timezone=CST&cid=N

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Posted By: Joann

Wow - thanks for the heads up. I'm going to set my VCR (yes, that's still with a V and not a D!) right now.

TCM always has interesting silents and shorts late on Sunday nights. I should NOT see them if I want to get enough sleep, but I often do.

A few months ago I caught the last part of a pre-sound version of The Wizard of Oz - from like the 20's or something. After that they had a 13 minute short silent of the Wizard of Oz from 1910. Seriously - the whole dang story crammed into a 15 minute short film with no sound. The tornado was some guy wrapped in cotton spray-painted gray that spun across the stage - you could see his legs out the bottom and it didn't look like they tried to hide them much. He had little fences and dogs glued to the outside of the cotton. It was hilarious.

So I will tape the Babe, and better yet the two shorts after that about baseball right in our collecting era.

How perfect. Thanks again.

J

Edited to revise a few minor errors of fact regarding the 1910 version.

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Posted By: MVSNYC

thanks for the heads-up...

sounds interesting, but not sure how long i can watch a silent film for, before i change the channel

BTW, it's actually TCM...

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Dang...wish I would have checked in on Net54 sooner...but the DVR is set to get the next three shows. Thanks a lot!

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Posted By: Max Weder

Dan

The dvd is available on amazon



http://www.amazon.ca/Reel-Baseball/dp/B000N2HDGE>

Max

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Posted By: Anonymous

There was a western on last week with Lou Gehrig as a cowboy. I didn't catch the name of the movie.

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Posted By: Phil Garry

I believe there were also baseball cards created of Babe Ruth promoting the "Headin Home" movie circa 1920.

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Posted By: Paul

The Gehrig western was probably Rawhide. I have the movie, but still need to watch it.

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Posted By: Greg Theberge

Pride of the Yankees and Fear Strikes Out are on tonight by the way