1. Eight Men Out (1988) | Historical films Wiki - Fandom
Eight Men Out is a 1988 American sports drama film based on Eliot Asinof's 1963 book Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series.
Eight Men Out is a 1988 American sports drama film based on Eliot Asinof's 1963 book Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series. It was written and directed by John Sayles. The film is a dramatization of Major League Baseball's Black Sox Scandal, in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox conspired with gamblers to intentionally lose the 1919 World Series. Much of the movie was filmed at the old Bush Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. During the late summer and early fall of 1987
2. Eight Men Out (1988) — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey.
Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching, hands-on manager who underpays his players and treats them with disdain. And when gamblers and hustlers discover that Comiskey's demoralized players are ripe for a money-making scheme, one by one the team members agree to throw the World Series. But when the White Sox are defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes, ripping the cover off America's favorite pastime.
3. AFI|Catalog
Eight Men Out (1988). PG | 120 mins | Drama | 2 September 1988. Cast: John Cusack, Clifton James, Michael Lerner [ More ]. Director: John Sayles. Writer: John ...
In 1919 Chicago, Illinois, gamblers “Sleepy” Bill Burns and Billy Maharg watch the Chicago White Sox play at Comiskey Field against the St. Louis Browns for the American League pennant, and a spot in the World Series against the Cincinnati Redlegs. Burns informs Maharg that while the White Sox are the most talented baseball players in the country, particularly outfielder “Shoeless” Joe Jackson and veteran pitcher Eddie Cicotte, the team’s owner, Charles “Commy” Comiskey, pays the lowest salaries in the league. When the White Sox win the game, Burns and Maharg plot to offer money to the Sox players to purposely lose the World Series, while they bet on Cincinnati to win. In the evening, “Sport” Sullivan, a gambler from Boston, Massachusetts, approaches first baseman Arnold “Chick” Gandil about the Sox’s “throwing” the World Series. Unhappy with the low wages Comiskey pays, Chick promises to convince seven or eight men to play badly. As Chick tells shortstop Charles “Swede” Risberg about
4. Eight Men Out” and the Black Sox Scandal of 1919
Eight Men Out, produced in 1988 and based on a book by the same name, tells the shocking story of the first real baseball scandal. Also known as the “The ...
Eight Men Out, produced in 1988 and based on a book by the same name, tells the shocking story of the first real baseball scandal. Also known as the “The Black Sox Scandal”, the movie tells the story of eight members of the Chicago White Sox who conspired to intentionally lose the 1919 World Series in exchange for gambling profits.
5. Eight Men Out | Screen Drafts Wiki - Fandom
Eight Men Out is a 1988 American sports drama film based on Eliot Asinof's 1963 book Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series. It was written ...
Eight Men Out is a 1988 American sports drama film based on Eliot Asinof's 1963 book Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series. It was written and directed by John Sayles. The film is a dramatization of Major League Baseball's Black Sox Scandal, in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox conspired with gamblers to intentionally lose the 1919 World Series. The movie stars John Cusack, John Mahoney, Michael Rooker, Clifton James, Michael Lerner, Christopher Lloyd, Charlie Sheen,
6. Eight Men Out | Rotten Tomatoes
'Eight Men Out'. A drama about the 1919 Black Sox Scandal, or a comedy about a group of 30-something closeted men linking up by coincidence one night and ...
The Chicago White Sox, who are set to play the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series of 1919, are at odds with their team's owner, Charles Comiskey (Clifton James), who pays his players unsatisfactory wages despite the team's popularity. A group of professional gamblers offers the Sox's best athletes a fortune to throw the series, and the players agree. However, their reputations and careers are ruined when the dark secret, dubbed the Black Sox Scandal, reaches the public consciousness.
7. Eight Men Out (Film, 1988) - MovieMeter.nl
Eight Men Out (1988) · Genre: Drama / Sport · Speelduur: 119 minuten · Oorsprong: Verenigde Staten · Geregisseerd door: John Sayles · Met onder meer: John Cusack, ...
Drama / Sport film.
8. Eight Myths Out: Appendix of errors in 'Eight Men Out' book and film
3 mrt 2019 · Note: All page numbers listed below are from the 1987 Owl Book paperback edition of Eight Men Out. EIGHT MEN OUT: THE 1963 BOOK BY ELIOT ASINOF.
9. Film Notes: EIGHT MEN OUT | Yale University Library
24 okt 2023 · EIGHT MEN OUT 7 p.m. Thursday, June 22, 2023 Humanities Quadrangle, Room L02 (320 York) Introduction by John Sayles and Archer Neilson Film ...
EIGHT MEN OUT 7 p.m. Thursday, June 22, 2023 Humanities Quadrangle, Room L02 (320 York) Introduction by John Sayles and Archer Neilson Film Notes by Michael Kerbel PDF
10. Eight Men Out (1988) (Guests: Robert Boland and Brett Kaufman)
28 mrt 2024 · Eight Men Out (1988) is a dramatization of professional baseball's infamous Black Sox scandal, in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox conspired with ...
Eight Men Out (1988) is a dramatization of professional baseball’s infamous Black Sox scandal, in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox conspired with gamblers to intentionally lose the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. The film, which was directed by John Sayles, is based on Eliot Asinof’s 1963 book, Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series. It recounts how a group of White Sox players conspired with an array of gamblers, including notorious underworld financier Arnold Rothstein (a/k/a “The Big Bankroll”), to throw the series in return for cash. After the Sox, who some consider one of the greatest baseball teams of all time, lose the series, suspicions grow that there had been a fix based on rumors and the nature of some players’ poor performances. Eight players are charged with conspiracy and tried in Chicago in 1921. Although the players are all acquitted, baseball’s new commissioner, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, banishes them all for life from baseball, a bold move that some believe saved the game of baseball, which was still in its relative infancy, and enabled it to become “America’s pastime.” Debates around the events continue to this day, including over the level of involvement of some players and the draconian nature of the punishment. With me to discuss this movie are Robert Boland and Brett Max Kaufman. Timestamps:0:00 Introduction4:19 Baseball circa 191910:30 Betting and game fixing in baseball17:43 The reserve clause 2...
11. Eight Men Out movie review & film summary (1988) - Roger Ebert
"Eight Men Out" is an oddly unfocused movie made of earth tones, sidelong glances and eliptic conversations. It tells the story of how the stars of the 1919 ...
“Eight Men Out” is an oddly unfocused movie made of earth tones, sidelong glances and eliptic conversations. It tells the story of how the stars of the 1919
12. Eight Men Out Background | GradeSaver
27 nov 2023 · Spawning a highly successful movie adaption, Eight Men Out is a sports novel written by Eliot Asinof and published in 1963.
The Eight Men Out Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.
13. Eight Men Out at 35: Getting "Shoeless Joe" right
6 sep 2023 · Eight Men Out arrived in September of 1988 — 35 years ago this week — and was part of the glut of memorable baseball movies during the late ...
Part of a glut of baseball movies in the late '80s and early '90s, John Sayles' film was less mystical but more truthful exploration of the legend of "Shoeless Joe" Jackson.
14. The Black Sox Scandal: A Cold Case, Not A Closed Case | Jacob Pomrenke
It has been 50 years since Eliot Asinof's landmark book on the 1919 Black Sox scandal, Eight Men Out, was first published.
Note: This article was originally published at TheNationalPastimeMuseum.com on December 20, 2012, and is reprinted here by permission. It has been 50 years since Eliot Asinof’s landmark book on the…
15. EIGHT MEN OUT - Sonoma Film Institute
Based on the true story of the 1919 “Black Sox” scandal, John Sayles's indie drama shows the best team in baseball playing dirty when low-balled by the boss and ...
Based on the true story of the 1919 “Black Sox” scandal, John Sayles’s indie drama shows the best team in baseball playing dirty when low-balled by the boss and bribed by gangsters.
16. Eight Men Out [Blu-Ray] (1988) - DVD Movie Guide
5 mei 2024 · In 1988's Eight Men Out, we find baseball's biggest scandal transformed into the sport's greatest tragedy. Perhaps the latter statement sounds a ...
Reviewed by Colin Jacobson: Perhaps the best baseball film ever made, Eight Men Out tells a bittersweet tale of talented players who blow it all and pay the price, and it does so in a straightforward but moving manner. Starring John Cusack, David Straithairn. Allied Vaughn, $24.99, 4/23/2024.
17. Eight Men Out - Apple TV
Based on the events surrounding the Chicago White Sox Scandal of 1919, this film throws us a curve as we learn how eight men can be out.
What's more American than baseball? Well as this film by John Sayles shows, the answers to that question may include greed and corruption. At a time w…
18. Eight Men Out | film by Sayles [1988] - Britannica
…he would eventually direct as Eight Men Out (1988). His early screenwriting efforts—several of which were written for Roger Corman, including Piranha (1978) ...
Other articles where Eight Men Out is discussed: John Sayles: …he would eventually direct as Eight Men Out (1988). His early screenwriting efforts—several of which were written for Roger Corman, including Piranha (1978) and Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)—were genre exercises that Sayles loaded with literary and cinematic references. Later for-hire screenwriting projects included The Howling (1981), The Quick and…
19. Eight Men Out (1988) (Guests: Robert Boland and Brett Kaufman ...
28 mrt 2024 · Eight Men Out (1988) is a dramatization of professional baseball's infamous Black Sox scandal, in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox conspired with ...
Eight Men Out (1988) is a dramatization of professional baseball’s infamous Black Sox scandal, in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox conspired with gamblers to intentionally lose the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. The film, wh...
20. Classic Film Review: John Sayles' “Eight Men Out” (1988) | Movie Nation
22 okt 2022 · Sayles found an excellent “Shoeless Joe” Jackson for this account of the 1919 World Series-fixed by gamblers crime that came to be called “The ...
The things some people will go to avoid watching the damned Yankees. Stumbling across “Eight Men Out” last night brought back memories of the film, what it represented — a turn to…
