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A film adaptation of Mark Harris' novel about a baseball player with terminal illness and his teammate. Robert De Niro and Michael Moriarty star as the pitcher and catcher who become friends and win the World Series.
Bang the Drum Slowly is a baseball novel by Mark Harris, published in 1956, about a dying catcher and his pitcher friend. The novel was adapted into a TV movie, a film and a play, and is considered one of the best sports books of all time.
- Mark Harris
- 1953
A 1973 drama about the friendship between a baseball pitcher and a dying catcher. See cast, crew, reviews, trivia, and more on IMDb, the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content.
- (6.3K)
- Drama, Sport
- John D. Hancock
- 1978-03-09
Bang The Drum Slowly. This full-length movie is available on YouTube. Robert De Niro and Michael Moriarty star in this superbly crafted film about the unlikely friendship between two...
A movie about the last season of a dying catcher and his friendship with a pitcher on a major league team. Roger Ebert praises the realistic characters, the humor, and the avoidance of melodrama in this adaptation of Mark Harris' novel.
Bang the Drum Slowly is a classic sports fiction book about the friendship and the lives of a group of men as they each learn that a teammate is dying of cancer. The novel features Henry Wiggen, a pitcher for the fictional New York Mammoths, and was adapted into a film starring Robert DeNiro.
NEW. When hotshot pitcher Henry Wiggen (Michael Moriarty) is signed to the New York Mammoths, his confident ways quickly win over his teammates. He's quite the opposite of Bruce Pearson (Robert De...
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- Drama
- PG
