It is a bad movie but I have to disagree with those who complained about the end of the movie where Ruth is wheeled away on a gurney to receive an experimental treatment for his illness. The movie was made before Ruth died and could not be very specific about his illness or its treatment because, as was frequently the case in those days, the Babe had not been told he had cancer. (As "Mad Men" showed this season, 16 years later not informing cancer patients of the diagnosis was still common). His doctors and family didn't want Ruth to find out in a movie theater and he did live long enough to attend the premier of the movie. He had however volunteered to receive one of the earliest experimental forms of chemotherapy, a drug call teropterin, without knowing what is was or what it was for, and Ruth was the first patient ever to receive a combination of radiation and chemotherapy. That is what is depicted at the end of the movie. The ending is incredibly corny movie making, but at least that part of the story was true.
Review of The Babe Ruth Story
