Eight Men Out
(1988)
Produced and released in 1988 by Orion Pictures Corp., color 35mm negative 1.85:1 screen ratio, mono sound, 119 mins., DVD released 1999.
Production:
- Directed by John Sayles Ê
- Written by Eliot Asinof, from his book 8 Men Out, and John Sayles
- Produced by Sarah Pillsbury, Midge Sanford
- Original music by Mason Daring Ê
- Cinematography by Robert Richardson
- Film Editing by John Tintori Ê
- Production Design by Nora Chavooshian Ê
- Art Direction Dan Bishop
Cast:
- D.B. Sweeney as 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson (LF)
- Jace Alexander as Dickie Kerr (P)
- John Cusack as Buck Weaver (3B)
- Gordon Clapp as Ray Schalk (C)
- Don Harvey as Swede Risberg (SS)
- Bill Irwin as Eddie Collins (2B)
- James Read as Claude "Lefty" Williams (P)
- Michael Rooker as Chick Gandil (1B)
- Charlie Sheen as Hap Felsch (CF)
- David Strathairn as Eddie Cicotte (P)
- Perry Lang as Fred McMullin (Util)
- John Mahoney as Kid Gleason (Mgr)
- Clifton James as Charles Comiskey
- John Anderson as Judge Landis
- John Sayles as Ring Lardner
- Studs Terkel as Hugh Fullerton
Notes:
This film is based on the true story of the "Black Sox" baseball scandal, in which eight players on Charles Cominsky's Chicago White Sox conspired with gamblers to throw the 1918 World Series.
Links:
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