Off His Base

1932
20m

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A reluctant baseball player's uncle gets him a shot in the big leagues. In the big game, he gets his chance to be a hero with bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth.A reluctant baseball player's uncle gets him a shot in the big leagues. In the big game, he gets his chance to be a hero with bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth.A reluctant baseball player's uncle gets him a shot in the big leagues. In the big game, he gets his chance to be a hero with bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth.

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5.4/10

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James Gleason

Picture in Opening Credits
(credit only)

Lucile Gleason

Mrs. Smith nee Minor
(as Lucille Webster Gleason)

Russell Gleason

Jerry Minor Smith

Eugene Pallette

Jerry Minor

Baby Peggy

Peggy
(as Peggy Montgomery)

Eddie Dunn

Gallagher - Reporter

Irish Meusel

Pop Anson - Manager

Jim Thorpe

Jim Thorpe

Mike Donlin

Mike Donlin

Director
- James Gleason
Writer
- Charles W. Paddock
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Trivia
This is silent film star Baby Peggy's first sound film.

Quotes
Peggy: Is he hot or is he hot?
Jerry Minor Smith: He ain't cold.

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5/10

You'd Think Russell Gleason Would Have Known How To Hold A Baseball Bat

It's the first of three shorts that James, Lucille, and Russell Gleason starred in for Educational Pictures in 1932, with Eugene Pallette as Lucille's blowhard brother. In this one, they have the crazy idea that Russell should be a baseball star. Things don't turn out well under the direction of James Gleason.

I blame a poor script, as well as Russell's apparently never having heard of baseball before this short. The four professionals are quite amusing as characters. It's the lack of a decent script that wrecks this one.

Olympics star Jim Thorpe has a role here.