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The Bush Leaguer
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6281 feet
Directed by Howard Bretherton

Cast: Monte Blue [Buchanan ‘Specs’ White], Clyde Cook [‘Skeeter’ McKinnon], Leila Hyams [Alice Hobbs], William Demarest [John Gilroy], Richard Tucker [Wallace Ramsey], Bud Marshall [Stetson], Tom Dempsey [‘The Parson’], Wilfred North (Wilfrid North) [Stokes], William Wilson [William ‘Lefty’ Murphy], Violet Palmer [Marie, Alice’s maid], Rodney Hildebrand [a detective]

Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. / Scenario by Harvey Gates, from a screen story by Charles Gordon Saxton. Assistant director, Eddie Sowders (Edward Sowders). Cinematography by Norbert Brodin (Norbert Brodine). / Released 20 August 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Comedy-Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.0700.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Gamblers - Inventors - Law: Enforcement: Police: Detectives - Sports: Baseball - USA: California: Los Angeles - USA: Idaho

Listing updated: 31 March 2009.

References: AFI-F2 n. F2.0700; Edelman-Baseball pp. 128-129, 205 : Website-IMDb.