Long Gone (film)
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| Genre | Comedy Drama Romance Sports |
| Based on |
Long Gone by Paul Hemphill |
| Screenplay by | Michael Norell |
| Directed by | Martin Davidson |
| Starring |
William Petersen Virginia Madsen Dermot Mulroney Larry Riley Katy Boyer |
| Theme music composer |
Phillip Namanworth Kenny Vance |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) | Joan Barnett |
| Cinematography | Robert Elswit |
| Editor(s) | Gib Jaffe |
| Running time | 113 minutes |
| Distributor | HBO |
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| Original network | HBO |
| Original release | May 23, 1987 |
Long Gone is a 1987 baseball film by HBO that is based on Paul Hemphill's 1979 book of the same name. The made-for-television film was directed by Martin Davidson and starred William Petersen, Virginia Madsen, and Dermot Mulroney. Historic McKechnie Field, located in Bradenton, Florida, was the location for many of the film's scenes. Outside North America, the movie was known as and entitled, Stogies.
The Tampico Stogies are a last-place baseball team based in Tampico, Florida. The team competes in the lowest-level (Class D) professional Gulf Coast league during the summer of 1957. It is unclear if the team is affiliated with a major league franchise. The Stogies are owned by a pair of corrupt and scheming local Tampico businessmen, Hale Buchman (Henry Gibson) and his son, Hale Buchman Jr. (Teller). They refer to themselves as sports moguls, despite the team being heavily mortgaged.
Their star player and manager is an aging Cecil "Stud" Cantrell (William Petersen), a hard-drinking, hard-playing, and hard-loving man's man. Signed out of high school by the St. Louis Cardinals, Cantrell was a onetime rookie standout in the organization, but he never made it to the big leagues because of a war injury he sustained in World War II during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
At a game against the Crestview Cats in Alabama, Cantrell meets a beautiful young woman just voted Miss Strawberry Blossom of 1957, Dixie Lee Boxx (Virginia Madsen). What Cantrell initially intends to be a one-night stand soon develops into a semi-serious relationship.
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