| Headin' Home | |
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Screenshot from Headin' Home |
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| Directed by | Lawrence C. Windom |
| Produced by | William Shea (producer) Herbert H. Yudkin (producer) |
| Written by | Arthur "Bugs" Baer Earle Browne (story) |
| Starring | See below |
| Release date(s) | 19 September 1920 |
| Running time | 55 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Heading Home (also called Headin' Home) is a 1920 American silent film directed by Lawrence C. Windom. It attempts to create a mythology surrounding the life of baseball player Babe Ruth.
The screenplay was written by Arthur "Bugs" Baer from a story by Earle Browne. Besides Ruth, it stars Ruth Taylor, William Sheer and Margaret Seddon.
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Ruth stars in the film, playing himself, but the details of his life are completely fictionalized. In the film, Ruth comes from a small country town and has a loving home life, but in real life, he grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and spent most of his childhood in a reformatory [1]. In the film, shades of the baseball movie The Natural, Ruth cuts down a tree to make his own bat.