Casey at the Bat (1927 film)

For the Disney animated short, see Make Mine Music.

Casey at the Bat is a 1927 American silent film, directed by Monte Brice, written by Ernest Thayer and based on the 1888 baseball poem of the same name. The picture stars Wallace Beery, Ford Sterling, ZaSu Pitts and Sterling Holloway in his film debut.^[1][2][3] Surviving period advertisements indicate Eddie Sutherland may have been slated as director before Brice. A copy was preserved at the Library of Congress.^[4][5]

Casey at the Bat
Advertisement showing Edward Sutherland as the original director
Directed by	Monte Brice
Written by	Monte Brice Reggie Morris Jules Furthman
Based on	"Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Thayer
Produced by	Hector Turnbull
Starring	Wallace Beery Ford Sterling Zasu Pitts Sterling Holloway
Cinematography	Barney McGill
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	March 8, 1927 (1927-03-08)
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Full film, public domain.

Cast

• Wallace Beery as Casey
• Ford Sterling as O'Dowd
• ZaSu Pitts as Camille
• Sterling Holloway as Elmer Putnam
• Spec O'Donnell as Spec
• Iris Stuart as Trixie
• Sydney Jarvis as McGraw
• Lotus Thompson as a Florodora Girl
• Rosalind Byrne as a Florodora Girl
• Sally Blane as a Florodora Girl

See also

• Breaking into the Big League (1913)
• Babe Comes Home (1927)
• List of baseball films