Well now I'm sure everybody's thinking how accurate was this story about Babe Ruth.
Well let's just say that Hollywood didn't want to tarnish the image of one of our favorite
sports heroes.
That's very much the way they did things back in the 1940s.
The more recent John Goodman version was probably a lot closer to the truth but this movie had
something that all the other pictures about Babe Ruth did not have.
This movie had the assistance of the babe himself which we mentioned before.
He along with Bob Considine wrote the autobiography which was the basis for the screenplay.
Now by the time the movie went into production Babe Ruth was seriously ill but he insisted
on visiting William Bendix on the set all the time.
We mentioned before that when they filmed at Yankee Stadium Babe Ruth left his hospital
bed to be in the stands and when the picture was completed he did attend the premiere at
New York's Astor Theater.
It was one of the last things that the great Babe Ruth ever did.
Two weeks later August 16 1948 Babe Ruth died at the age of 53.
Next on AMC Jimmy Stewart tries to get away from it all in the family comedy Mr. Hobbs
Takes a Vacation featuring Maureen O'Hara.
Next on AMC.
All right let's have it.
AMC a dedicated leader in film preservation celebrates the fifth anniversary of its film
preservation festival with an author dedicated to film noir.
Murder is my favorite crime.
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This Halloween AMC wants to give you a good scare.
It's AMC's Halloween Monster Mania Festival.
Forty-six bright filled hours of monsters and mummies.
Dracula and Blackula plus a thrilling new AMC special Monster Mania hosted by horror
veteran Jack Palance.
AMC's Monster Mania Festival, forty-six frightening hours beginning Thursday, October 30th at
7 Eastern only on AMC.
A free press like a free life is always in danger.
He was an uncompromising newspaper editor determined to expose a major criminal.
Listen to me.
Print that story or you're a dead man.
That's the press baby, the press.
And there's nothing you can do about it, nothing.
Humphrey Bogart, Martin Gable and Ethel Barrymore star in the AMC drama Deadline USA.
Thursday on AMC.
This week on Saturday Classics, AMC remembers Charlton Heston.
He was full of swagger and brag.
But if trouble came knocking at his door, he stood up and looked it straight in the
eye.
When AMC brings him so close, you'll be glad you're on his side.
Charlton Heston stars in The Omega Man this week at 5 Eastern on AMC's Saturday Classics
as close as you can get.
Romance all day and night.
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Romance Classics is a new cable network from AMC devoted entirely to romance 24 hours a
day.
You'll see what Romance Classics is all about with Sunday Romance Classics on AMC.
Every Sunday tune in to AMC for a sneak peek of the movies, miniseries and original productions.
You'll find only on Romance Classics.
Romance ignites when a young woman heads to Italy to find the true meaning of love.
Suzanne Plachette and Troy Donahue star in Rome Adventure.
I'm Linda Carter and I'll be your host.
So join us this Sunday and put more romance in your life.
Hi I'm Bob Dorian and I'm here in one of the most beautiful movie palaces in the country,
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The most fiercely independent voices in film today keep telling us what to do.
This fall, the Independent Film Channel celebrates the work of a few filmmakers we have the honor
to call our advisory board.
Jodie Foster, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Tim Robbins, Martin Scorsese.
Vision behind the camera, viewpoint behind the network.
The IFC advisory board showcase.
Call your cable operator.
Jimmy Stewart tries to get away from it all in the family comedy, Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation,
featuring Maureen O'Hara, next on AMC.
AMC, a dedicated leader in film preservation, celebrates its fifth annual film preservation
festival with an exciting offer to adventure movie lovers everywhere.
A Tarzan video collection featuring Tarzan the Oathman, Tarzan and his mate, and Tarzan
finds a son.
Call 1-800-AMC-3360 today and for only $49.95, the legendary Johnny Weitzmuller swings into
your home in three all-time Tarzan classics, with Maureen O'Sullivan as the beauty who tames
the beast.
Net proceeds benefit the Film Foundation to preserve our film heritage.
Get ready for a rumble in the jungle.
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A name that is synonymous with horror, Frankenstein.
We've discovered the source of life itself and we've used it to restore a creature that
was dead.
The good doctor is tampering with the forces of nature, but has he crossed the line from
healer to madman?
Stop what you're doing before it's too late.
Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, The Curse of Frankenstein, Friday, October 31st at 7
Eastern, part of AMC's Halloween monster mania.
Certain things shouldn't be disturbed.
He who robs the graves of Egypt dies.
But the tomb of Ananga is calling.
There's something evil in there, Uncle Joe.
And someone will have to pay the ultimate price for unearthing the unearthly.
For this desecration, you will be avenged.
Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, The Mummy, Friday, October 31st at 8.30 p.m. Eastern,
part of AMC's Halloween monster mania.
Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man.
Movie monsters have fascinated and frightened us for generations.
They've spawned TV series, merchandise, even popular music.
AMC puts the spotlight on America's mania for monsters in an AMC original production
from silent fright to today's terror.
Jack Palance hosts Monster Mania this Halloween at 10 Eastern, part of AMC's Halloween monster
mania festival.
AMC, a dedicated leader in film preservation, celebrates the fifth anniversary of its film
preservation festival with a thrilling offer to all suspense lovers.
The Alfred Hitchcock video collection featuring the restored widescreen version of Vertigo,
including two trailers and the AMC documentary Obsessed with Vertigo.
Plus, the new widescreen video version of Psycho and a third Hitchcock classic, The Birds.
Call 1-800-AMC-3360 today.
And for only $49.95, you'll receive three classics from the Master of Suspense, plus
the documentary and the trailers.
Net proceeds benefit the Film Foundation to preserve our film heritage.
Call 1-800-AMC-3360 and order the Alfred Hitchcock video collection today.
Next on AMC, Jimmy Stewart tries to get away from it all in the family comedy Mr. Hobbs
Takes a Vacation featuring Maureen O'Hara.
Next on AMC.
Well, think about your last vacation.
Did everything seem to go pretty well?
I mean, just the way you planned it?
If you answered yes, the question is, are you really telling the truth?
It seems that everybody has at least one vacation disaster, no matter what happens.
In the movie we're about to see, Jimmy Stewart plays a banker who takes his family on one
of those ill-fated vacations and everything happens.
Now, some of the events in the film seem just a little bit too real.
It's because probably the screenwriter, Edward Streeter, was the only successful Hollywood
screenwriter who was also the vice president of a major New York bank.
So he makes a central character banker so that he could use some of his own experiences
as a model.
Since this was a 20th century Fox film, you'll notice a lot of Foxy references along the
way.
You'll hear lines about Dragonwick and Edgar Allan Poe, which were both Fox films at the
time.
And look at the Westerns that are playing on television in the background.
They're from the Fox Library as well.
We'll be back with James Stewart in a great classic, Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, right
after this.
Thanks for watching.