Myrtle Brady (Daphne Pollard)is a town flirt who is stringing along three players on the local baseball team, but the star pitcher, Speedy (Tom Dugan), thinks he is her one-and-only. When he finds out otherwise on the day of the Big Game, he refuses to pitch.
Del Lord, Harry McCoy, Earle Rodney
United States
If you've got twenty minutes to kill and a strange fondness for grainy, frantic 1930s comedy shorts, Slide, Speedy, Slide might just hit the spot. It’s definitely not for anyone looking for a nuanced sports drama or, you know, anything resembling reality. If you find the pacing of modern movies exhausting, you might ac...
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"If you've got twenty minutes to kill and a strange fondness for grainy, frantic 1930s comedy shorts, Slide, Speedy, Slide might just hit the spot. It’s definitely not for anyone looking for a nuanced sports drama or, you know, anything resembling reality. If you find the pacing of modern movies exhausting, you might actually enjoy how this thing just sprints from one bad decision to the next. The whole premise is basically just a setup for a series of awkward excuses. Myrtle Brady is supposedly..."
1920 · IMDb 4.7
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