Headin' Home

Headin' Home is a 1920 American silent biopic sports film directed by Lawrence C. Windom.[1][2][3][4] It attempts to create a mythology surrounding the life of baseball player Babe Ruth.

This article is about the 1920 film. For the 2018 film about the Israel national baseball team, see Heading Home (2018 film). For the album by Jimmy Owens, see Headin' Home (Jimmy Owens album).

Headin' Home
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Directed byLawrence C. Windom
Written byArthur "Bugs" Baer
Earle Browne (story)
Produced byWilliam Shea (producer)
Herbert H. Yudkin (producer)
StarringSee below
CinematographyOllie Leach
Production
company
Kessel & Baumann
Distributed byYankee Photo Corporation
Release date
  • September 19, 1920 (1920-09-19)
Running time
55 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The screenplay was written by Arthur "Bugs" Baer from a story by Earle Browne. Besides Ruth, it stars Ruth Taylor, William Sheer, and Margaret Seddon.

It was filmed largely in Haverstraw, New York

Plot summary

Ruth stars in the film, playing himself, but the details of his life are completely fictionalized. In the film, Ruth comes from a small country town and has a loving home life, but in real life, he grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and spent most of his childhood in a reformatory.[5] In the film, shades of the 1984 baseball movie The Natural, Ruth cuts down a tree to make his own bat.

Cast

See also

References
  1. Headin’ Home (1920) A Silent Film Review – Movies Silently
  2. Progressive Silent Film List: Headin’ Home at silentera.com
  3. Headin' Home (1920) – TCM.com
  4. Beyond The Box Office: Headin' Home (1920) – Lookout Landing
  5. , Sacramento Bee.
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