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Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. “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 Chicago White Sox team took payoffs from gamblers to throw the World Series, but if you are not already familiar with that story you’re ...
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Mar 22, 2022 · Amazon MGM Studios. 1.19M subscribers. Subscribed. 272. 33K views 2 years ago #MGM #EightMenOut. A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to...
Eight Men Out tells the true story of the infamous 'Black Sox' scandal of 1919, in which the White Sox players deliberately lost the World Series. The movie places the scandal in the context of a labor dispute between the players and their then all-powerful team owner, and how mobster Arnold Rothstein took advantage of the dispute.
Eight Men Out. This dramatization follows the 1919 major league baseball scandal involving the Chicago White Sox who as a team accepted bribes to throw the World Series for money. 1,120 IMDb 7.2 1 h 59 min 1988. X-Ray PG. Drama · Historical · Anxious · Downbeat. Available to rent or buy. Rent. HD $3.99. Buy. HD $14.99. More purchase. options.
Eight Men Out. Overview. 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.
About. Eight Men Out. DRAMA. 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 when baseball players were workingmen and not multi-millionaires, the promise of financial gain was a proposition too tempting to pass up.
