Babe Ruth (1991)
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Babe Ruth is a made-for-TV biopic about the titular baseball legend, here played by Stephen Lang. The film covers the events of Babe's life from his orphanage childhood to his retirement from baseball in 1935. Recounted are Babe's two marriages, the first to the benighted Helen Woodford… More Babe Ruth is a made-for-TV biopic about the titular baseball legend, here played by Stephen Lang. The film covers the events of Babe's life from his orphanage childhood to his retirement from baseball in 1935. Recounted are Babe's two marriages, the first to the benighted Helen Woodford (Yvonne Suhor) and the second to down-to-earth showgirl Claire Hodgson (Lisa Zane); Babe's frequent tiltings with Col. Ruppert (Donald Moffat), autocratic owner of the New York Yankees; Babe's periodic slumps and suspensions; his "wine, women, and more women" lifestyle; his unrealized dream of becoming a team manager; his record-breaking 60th home run in 1927; and his last-stand "three-homer" game for the Boston Braves in his valedictory 1935 season. Too rushed and surfacy to be totally successful, Babe Ruth is nonetheless closer to truth than the sentimentalized John Goodman feature film The Babe (1992), and infinitely superior to William Bendix's atrocious The Babe Ruth Story (1948). As a bonus, real-life baseball great Pete Rose shows up in a one-minute cameo as Ty Cobb. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Mark Tinker
- Genres
- Drama, Television, Sports & Fitness
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Oct 1, 1991 Wide
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Cast
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Bruce Weitz
as Miller Huggins
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Lisa Zane
as Claire
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Donald Moffat
as Jacob Ruppert
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Brian Doyle-Murray
as Marshall Hunt
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Pete Rose
as Ty Cobb
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Dana Craig
as Umpire
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William Flatley
as Emil Fuchs
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Adam Goldberg
as Vendor
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Deborah Anne Gorman
as Julia
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Neal McDonough
as Lou Gehrig
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Fred Ornstein
as Reporter
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Yvonne Suhor
as Helen
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Rohn Thomas
as Reporter
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Frankie Thorn
as Lady in Hotel
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Thomas Wagner
as Bill Killefer
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Annabelle Weenick
as Mrs. Woodford
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Dale Young
as Fred Lieb
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John Anderson
as Judge Landis
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Andrew May
as Wally Pipp
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Matthew Glave
as Joe Dugan
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Stephen Lang
as Babe Ruth
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William Lucking
as Brother Matthias
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Tom Tully
as Reporter
