Headin' Home

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{{Infobox film

| name = Headin' Home

| image = Heading Home (1920) - 5.jpg

| caption = Advertisement

| director = Lawrence C. Windom

| producer = William Shea (producer)
Herbert H. Yudkin (producer)

| writer = Arthur "Bugs" Baer
Earle Browne (story)

| starring = See below

| music =

| cinematography = Ollie Leach

| studio = Kessel & Baumann

| distributor = Yankee Photo Corporation

| released = {{Film date|1920|9|19}}

| runtime = 55 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

| budget =

| gross =

}}

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Headin' Home is a 1920 American silent biopic sports film directed by Lawrence C. Windom.[http://moviessilently.com/2016/06/05/headin-home-1920-a-silent-film-review/ Headin’ Home (1920) A Silent Film Review – Movies Silently][http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/H/HeadinHome1920.html Progressive Silent Film List: Headin’ Home] at silentera.com[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/495485/headin-home#articles-reviews Headin' Home (1920) – TCM.com][https://www.lookoutlanding.com/2015/12/31/10690734/beyond-the-box-office-headin-home-1920 Beyond The Box Office: Headin' Home (1920) – Lookout Landing] 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.

It was filmed largely in Haverstraw, New York

Plot summary

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.[http://sacbee.com/172/story/149603.html], Sacramento Bee. In the film, shades of the 1984 baseball movie The Natural, Ruth cuts down a tree to make his own bat.