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Casey at the Bat
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 6040 feet
Directed by Monte Brice
Cast: Wallace Beery [Mike Xavier Aloysious ‘Home Run’ Casey], Ford Sterling [O’Dowd], ZaSu Pitts [Camille], Sterling Holloway [Elmer Putnam], Spec O’Donnell [Spec], Iris Stuart [Trixie], Sidney Jarvis (Sydney Jarvis) [John McTague], Lotus Thompson, Rosalind Byrne, Anne Sheridan [a Floradora girl], Doris Hill [a Floradora girl], Sally Blane [a Floradora girl]
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [A Paramount Picture; A Hector Turnbull Production]. / Produced by Hector Turnbull. Scenario by Jules Furthman, from the adaptation by Reginald Morris and Monte Brice of a screen story by Hector Turnbull based on the poem “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer. Cinematography by Barney McGill. Intertitles written by Sam Hellman and Grant Clarke. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / Released 8 March 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy: Sports: Baseball.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Athletes: Baseball players - Barbers - Junk dealers - Sports: Baseball - Sports: Teams: New York Giants
Listing updated: 26 February 2023.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0617; AFI-F2 n. F2.0795; Edelman-Baseball pp. 32, 45, 47-48, 205, 206; Paris-Brooks p. 157; Sweeney-Coming p. 118 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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