Ronald Reagan as Pete Alexander

[Golden Bear]

The death of the former president alerts us to the film "The Winning Team" from 1952.

Anyone ever see it? Was the film any good? Was Reagan good as Alexander?

[Crash Course]

I recall seeing it a long time ago on TV - and enjoying the movie. I rated it as "Surprisingly enjoyable" at one time on the NetShrine site.

The local radio (WFAN) talking heads on the drive home last night brought it up - claiming that it's very hard, nearly impossible, to get a copy of it.

I looked and it appears that Amazon sells it used.

Again, it was a long time ago, but (at the time) I thought that Reagan did a good job.

[KCBOOMER]

The film is enjoyable as long as you just relax and treat it as 90 minutes entertainment and not a biography of Pete's life. I believe the female lead was the very attractive, but saccharine sweet, June Allyson. The film is basically a fluff baseball movie on the order of "Pride of the Yankees" and not too much time should be spent looking for layered perforamances, nuances of character, or fact base incidents other than references to what he did on the diamond.

I do recommend this movie but not as baseball history.

[Golden Bear]

Actually the female lead was Doris Day, the archetypal sweet girl.

(Gossip: According to Reagan's biographer Edmund Morris, Doris Day had an affair with Reagan when he was between marriages. The romance was brief; they remained friends.)

[pathogan]

...at one point, Ol pete "accidently" gets drunk , mistaking cough medicine for hooch[when, actually most cough medicine had more alcohol then wine or beer, and ,well, Alexander never found a shot he could pass up anyway] it was silly crapola,not as bad as bendix's ruth...

[pwdennis]

The film is enjoyable as long as you just relax and treat it as 90 minutes entertainment and not a biography of Pete's life. I believe the female lead was the very attractive, but saccharine sweet, June Allyson. The film is basically a fluff baseball movie on the order of "Pride of the Yankees" and not too much time should be spent looking for layered perforamances, nuances of character, or fact base incidents other than references to what he did on the diamond.

I do recommend this movie but not as baseball history.

Exactly - as a film it was better than most baseball films of its time but not close to being up to modern standards for baseball movies