Cast:
James Earl Jones, Brock Peters, Jason Robards, Roy Scheider, Joe DiMaggio (a.f.), Whitey Ford (a.f.), Mickey Mantle (a.f.), Frank Robinson (a.f.), Donald Honig, Jesse Owens (a.f.)Plots(1)
These are the greats of baseball history, legends in their lifetime legends today. It's baseball as you've never seen it before the way you always imagined the way it was. When It Was a Game is composed entirely of 8 and 16 mm home movie footage taken by fans and the players themselves between 1934 and 1957. For the first time, star players and their stadiums step out of the black and white newsreel footage, and appear in living, breathing color. Players like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb and Joe DiMaggio. Ballparks like Ebbets Field, Briggs Stadium, Crosley Field and Griffith Stadium. As time passed, baseball changed, some of the clubs, the parks, the players are no longer with us. But their memory is and the magic of those memories is brought vividly to life, in When It Was a Game. (official distributor synopsis)
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James Earl Jones
USA
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Brock Peters
USA
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Jason Robards
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Roy Scheider
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Whitey Ford (a.f.)
USA
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Mickey Mantle (a.f.)
USA
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Frank Robinson (a.f.)
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Donald Honig
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Jesse Owens (a.f.)
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