Product Details

• Format: NTSC
• Running time: 106 minutes

Customer Reviews

Must see for baseball fans
A wonderful dedication to such a fantastic baseball player. Babe Ruth's life shows what a sentive side he had along with his fortitude as the greatest baseball player. The end makes you feel like you lost a personal friend. Everyone has heard of Babe,he'll always be remembered and loved. This movie gives you a sence of knowing him and loving his life.

Better Too Swet Than Too Sour
This is often pointed to cynically by sportswriters and fans as the ultimate ridiculously sugarcoated sports-hero film of all time. Who's to argue? If you know Babe Ruth and what he was like, you almost have to laugh at some of the stuff in here. Yet, this film is old-fashioned charm, and despite the negatives to it, I enjoy watching it. It's so corny, it's good.

That's not to say Ruth was a bad man, because he wasn't. He was extremely likable guy whom his teammates all loved, he was fantastic with kids and very, very generous man. But he also had a ton of faults, too, some of which got him in big trouble with his managers and league officials. His health was a problem at times, thanks, in part to his opulent lifestyle. He was a glutton and an adulterer and life wasn't fun for him as he got unfairly passed over to be a manager, something he desperately sought.His was very crude and profane.

Very few if any of these negative qualities are the in the film - just the good 'ole boy - the kind William Bendix played on his TV show, "The Life Of Riley."

Also unrealistic - and typical of sports movies in the "classic era" - is Bendix trying to throw and hit a baseball. Thank goodness modern-day movies don't have actors like this who are clueless on how to play the actual sport they are portraying.

Yet, as sweet and unrealistic as this film can be, it's a lot better than doing the reverse, which is what Hollywood did to the Babe in 1992 in the John Goodman movie. They portray the Babe in mostly negative terms.

Too bad you usually get two extremes when it comes biographies made in Hollywood. In the "classic era" films, our heroes could do no wrong. Since the '60s, our heroes are shown to be blemished more than anything else. Where is the middle ground?

Only the "Babe" = George Ruth
This is a documentary. The history, only romanced a little by Hollywood.
I never saw Babe play. I am 61. But my father sat right behind him in center field, at the Stadium in New York. This movie was one of the first movies I ever saw. The nuns played it for us once a year, at school, because of the message at the end of the film. Me, as a regular human, give the film 5 stars. This is on my "Top-Five-of-all-time" list
Bill Donovan