The Bush Leaguer Explained

The Bush Leaguer
Director:	Howard Bretherton
Story:	Charles Gordon Saxton
Starring:	Monte Blue Leila Hyams
Cinematography:	Norbert Brodine
Studio:	Warner Bros.
Distributor:	Warner Bros.
Runtime:	7 reels
Country:	United States
Language:	Sound (Synchronized) (English Intertitles)

The Bush Leaguer is a lost^{[1] [2]} 1927 American synchronized sound comedy film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring Monte Blue and Leila Hyams. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process. The film was produced and distributed by the Warner Bros..^[3]

Cast

• Monte Blue as Buchanan "Specs" White
• Clyde Cook as Skeeter McKinnon
• Leila Hyams as Alice Hobbs
• William Demarest as John Gilroy
• Richard Tucker as Wallace Ramsey
• Burt Marshall as Stetson
• Tom Dempsey as The "Parson"
• Wilfred North as Stokes
• William Wilson as William "Lefty" Murphy
• Violet Palmer as Marie, Alice's maid
• Rodney Hildebrand as Detective

See also

• List of baseball films
• List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
• List of early Warner Bros. sound and talking features

External links

• • • Lobby or window card

Notes and References

1. http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arnewarner.html The Bush Leaguer at Lost Film Files: Warner Brothers lost films - 1927
2. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.4081/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Bush Leaguer
3. http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=3134 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Bush Leaguer