Eight Men Out
Idealistic rookie Buck Weaver fights to keep his integrity intact as corrupt owners and hungry gamblers coerce his Chicago White Sox teammates into throwing the 1919 World Series, risking scandal and ruin for baseball’s soul.
“When the cheering stopped, there were... Eight Men Out.”
Synopsis
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. 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. But when the White Sox are defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix, and a national scandal explodes, ripping the cover off America's favorite pastime.
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Principal cast & crew: 18
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Edited by John TintoriShot by Robert RichardsonScored by Mason DaringDesigned by Nora Chavooshian
Box Office
1988 · Box office
📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.9× its budget
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Worldwide gross
$5.7M
US & Canada: $5.7M — 100% of worldwide · International: $19K (0%)
Opening weekend: $1.3M — 23% of its US run.
Opening week (7-day): $1.3M — 23% of its US & Canada run.
Peak 147 theaters
Also known as
- Acht Mann und ein Skandalde
- Ocho hombreses
- Les Coulisses de l'exploitfr
- Otto uomini fuoriit
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Cast & Crew
18 unique people credited
Top billed cast
John Cusack
as Buck Weaver - The Team
Clifton James
as Charles Comiskey - The Owners
Jace Alexander
as Dickie Kerr - The Team
Gordon Clapp
as Ray Schalk - The Team
Don Harvey
as Swede Risberg - The Team
Bill Irwin
as Eddie Collins - The Team
Perry Lang
as Fred McMullin - The Team
John Mahoney
as Kid Gleason - The Team
James Read
as Lefty Williams - The Team
Michael Rooker
as Chick Gandil - The Team
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