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- Life's Greatest Game is a 1924 silent Melodrama crime film produced by Emory Johnson Productions and distributed by FBO. This movie was one of the first films to take a realistic look at America's favorite pastime, baseball. The film is directed by Emory Johnson and is written by Emilie Johnson. It stars Johnnie Walker, Tom Santschi, Jane Thomas, David Kirby, and Gertrude Olmstead. The 1919 World Series Black Sox Scandal inspired the Emilie Johnson storyline and screenplay. The plot unfolds as Jack Donovan, the pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, refuses to throw a game for gambler Mike Moran. Moran retaliates by breaking up Donovan's family. Believing that his wife and son died in the sinking of an ocean liner, Donovan remains in baseball and, 18 years later, becomes the manager of New York Giants. Senior doesn't know that his family didn't perish in the shipwreck, and his son, Jack Jr., is a grown man and star baseball player for a college team. The Giants hire Jackie Jr. to play for the club. Fate brings them together for a crucial world series game, just as Jackie Jr. discovers his birth father. On September 28, 1924, FBO premiered Life's Greatest Game at the Cameo Theatre New York City. In a serendipitous twist of fate, the Giants started a two-game series with the Phillies on September 27, 1924. The winner would become the National League champion. Before the start of the game, a Giants player approached a Phillies shortstop. He offers him money to avoid "bearing down hard" during the game. Thus, a real baseball scandal occurred during the premiere of a film about a baseball scandal. The 1924 World Series started on Saturday, October 4, 1924. Life's Greatest Game was officially released one day later on Sunday, October 5, 1924. (en)
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- The greatest appeal in pictures is not in extravagant spectacles, historical pageants, or adaptation of fairy tales. I think the straight-forward, clean, wholesome Melodrama will always have the choice corner in the hearts of the American public. (en)
- Melodrama is our meat - but it's high-class melodrama. It allowed the public to weep and sympathize with the handsome hero and the beautiful heroine. We don't want to label our pictures, we must make pictures that appeal to all. (en)
- What the world needs most today is a better understanding of humanity. What it wants are love and human sympathy. Thus, I have set out to make love the theme of all my productions. I have sought to show how whole families are lifted from sorrow to contentment by love and kindly sediments. (en)
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- "FBO policy was to produce pictures for Main Street's entertainment rather than the more sophisticated broadway tastes." (en)
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- "Washington Senators win the 1924 World Series" (en)
- "THE BATTLING ORIOLES- Glenn Tryon, Blanche Mehaffey, Noah Young" (en)
- "Calvin Coolidge and the Washington Senators' 1924 World Series" (en)
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