Dizzy & Daffy

In the 1920s and 30s, Hollywood liked to try to make stars out of some of America's sports heroes. The most successful of these folks was Babe Ruth and he made a variety of films of mostly unimpressive quality. In addition, Jerome 'Dizzy' Dean and his brother, Paul 'Daffy' Dean, get a chance to appear in this film...mostly because Dizzy was one of the best pitchers of the 1930s and Daffy was terrific for his first couple seasons until he got injured. Dizzy went on to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame...Daffy, well, didn't.

This film portrays itself as a comic version of the Dean brothers and their rise to fame. Of course, it looks nothing like their real lives and the two ballplayers mostly seem out of place with the likes of Shemp Howard and Roscoe Ates milking it for laughs.

So is this any good? No. It's not all that funny and the film is pretty limp. HOWEVER, for baseball nuts it's a must-see picture, as you do get to see the Deans and you learn conclusively that they should have stuck strictly to baseball!!