"Off His Base" is a short from Educational Pictures that is mostly worth seeing for its unusual cast. James Gleason's wife, Lucille, and son, Russell, star in this short and Baby Peggy and Jim Thorpe also make appearances!
The short plays more like a film....just very condensed. It begins with the Mustangs in trouble in their championship series...all the players are banged up and they're being clobbered. But a sports reporter (Eugene Pallette) insists that his nephew, Minor, can really play ball and will help the team win.
The film is completely unpredictable and doesn't follow the usual formula. And, as I mentioned above, the cast is most unusual. But it's also hampered by Russell Gleason's complete lack of charisma and his inability to hold a baseball bat correctly...and since the film is about him, it's a pretty big handicap. Worth seeing, but it could have been better with a better leading man.
The short plays more like a film....just very condensed. It begins with the Mustangs in trouble in their championship series...all the players are banged up and they're being clobbered. But a sports reporter (Eugene Pallette) insists that his nephew, Minor, can really play ball and will help the team win.
The film is completely unpredictable and doesn't follow the usual formula. And, as I mentioned above, the cast is most unusual. But it's also hampered by Russell Gleason's complete lack of charisma and his inability to hold a baseball bat correctly...and since the film is about him, it's a pretty big handicap. Worth seeing, but it could have been better with a better leading man.
