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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. The price before discount is the median price for the last 90 days. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
Eight Men Out. 1988 · 2 hr. PG. Drama · Sport. A dramatization of the infamous 1919 Black Sox Scandal, in which members of the Chicago White Sox conspired with gamblers to throw the World Series. Subtitles: English. Starring: John Cusack James Clifton Charlie Sheen. Directed by: John Sayles. A dramatization of the infamous 1919 Black Sox ...
4.05. 10,951 ratings400 reviews. First published in 1963, Eliot Asinof's Eight Men Out has become a timeless classic of a scandalous world series. The headlines proclaimed the 1919 fix of the World Series and attempted cover-up as "the most gigantic sporting swindle in the history of America!" Eliot Asinof has reconstructed the entire scene-by ...
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 -- (Movie Clip) This Is Your Bonus Introducing gamblers (Richard Edson, Christopher Lloyd) in the stands, players (John Cusack, Charlie Sheen, David Strathairn et al) afield, owner Comiskey (Clifton James) with director John Sayles among the reporters, in Eight Men Out, 1988.
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 ...
Eight Men Out. An adaptation of the 1919 major league baseball scandal involving the Chicago White Sox. The Sox are conned into throwing the 1919 World Series. Eight players are indicted but are later acquitted of all charges. The players concerned were barred from the major leagues and the Baseball Hall of Fame. 590 IMDb 7.2 1 h 59 min 1988.
