"This film illustrates the American habit of canonizing baseball players, for apparently Babe Ruth did not only perform remarkable feats on the field, but could also perform miracles by curing the sick and the crippled. This power is demonstrated four times in the film, each in an increasingly embarrassing manner, and William Bendix portrays Babe Ruth as a half-witted giant without any redeeming pathos." More recent assessments have been overwhelmingly negative. The Providence Journal writes that it "turns up on nearly every list of the worst movies ever made, with good reason". In an interview with Dan Shaughnessy of The Boston Globe, Ted Williams called The Babe Ruth Story "the worst movie I ever saw", while The Washington Times stated that the film "stands as possibly the worst movie ever made". The film has been called one of the worst sports films ever by Newsday and The A.V. Club, and called one of the worst biopics by Moviefone and Spike. Michael Sauter included it in his book The Worst Movies of All Time, and Leonard Maltin called it "perfectly dreadful". See also The Jackie Robinson Story – 1950 biopic starring Jackie Robinson Babe Ruth – 1991 biopic starring Stephen Lang The Babe – 1992 biopic featuring John Goodman 1948 in film References External links 1948 films 1940s biographical films 1940s sports films Allied Artists films American baseball films American biographical films American black-and-white films Biographical films about sportspeople Cultural depictions of Babe Ruth 1940s English-language films Films directed by Roy Del Ruth Sports films based on actual events Films scored by Edward Ward (composer) 1940s American films