Babe Ruth | |
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Genre | Biography Drama Sport |
Screenplay by | Michael De Guzman |
Directed by | Mark Tinker |
Starring | Stephen Lang Brian Doyle-Murray Donald Moffat Yvonne Suhor Bruce Weitz Lisa Zane |
Composer | Steve Dorff |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producer | Lawrence A. Lyttle |
Producer | Frank Pace |
Production locations | Los Angeles Cleveland |
Cinematography | Donald M. Morgan |
Editor | Stanford C. Allen |
Running time | 99 minutes |
Production companies | Elliot Friedgen & Company Warner Bros. Television NBC |
Original release | |
Network | NBC |
Release | October 6, 1991 |
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De Guzman's teleplay was adapted from two well-received biographies, Kal Wagenheim's Babe Ruth: His Life and Legend and Robert Creamer's Babe: The Legend Comes to Life, [4] [5] both published in 1974. [6]
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