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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Rainout Theater


The Babe Ruth Story (1948)
Starring 
William Bendix

“A laughingstock in the sports film genre!”
—Phil Hall, The Greatest Bad Movies of All Time

“Perfectly dreadful!”
—Leonard Maltin. Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide

“Sanitized and sanctimonious!”
—Pauline Kael, The New Yorker

“Tedious and tasteless!”
—Bosley Crowther, New York Times

“The Plan 9 From Outer Space of baseball biopics… an experience not to be missed!”
—Hal Erickson, Allmovie


1 comment:

BernBabyBern said...

From 30:30 to 32:45 is just sensational.

I love this movie. I laughed my ass off the first time I saw it.