Summary Released from prison on parole, the "Gas-Pipe Kid" returns to his home in the slums to find his mother dead and his father evicted. He is arrested for beating up the landlord but escapes with the help of Ida Hunt, his sweetheart. Years later he is a baseball star known as Bat Shugrue and is widely idolized by boys who read about his clean living. When Shugrue realizes his influence, he refuses to "throw" a game for blackmailers who threaten to reveal his past, and he goes to Judge Drury to tell the whole truth. The judge decides that Shugrue is more valuable free than in jail; the star is reunited with Ida. View more details
Directed : Harry A. Pollard
Written : Raymond L. Schrock William Slavens McNutt Frank S. Beresford
Stars : Hayden Stevenson Rockliffe Fellowes Fritzi Ridgeway Buddy Messinger
Genres : Crime Drama
Release date : May 27, 1923
Countries of origin : United States
Language : English None
Filming locations : Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
Production companies : Universal Pictures
Summary Released from prison on parole, the "Gas-Pipe Kid" returns to his home in the slums to find his mother dead and his father evicted. He is arrested for beating up the landlord but escapes with the help of Ida Hunt, his sweetheart. Years later he is a baseball star known as Bat Shugrue and is widely idolized by boys who read about his clean living. When Shugrue realizes his influence, he refuses to "throw" a game for blackmailers who threaten to reveal his past, and he goes to Judge Drury to tell the whole truth. The judge decides that Shugrue is more valuable free than in jail; the star is reunited with Ida. View more details
Genres : Crime Drama
Release date : May 27, 1923
Countries of origin : United States
Language : English None
Filming locations : Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
Production companies : Universal Pictures
