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.

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)
Headin' Home

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

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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.

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