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The Babe Ruth Story Monthly Film Bulletin" of Britain wrote: "This film illustrates the American habit of canonizing baseball players, for apparently Babe Ruth did not only perform remarkable feats on the field, but could also perform miracles by curing the sick and the crippled. This power is demonstrated four times in the film, each in an increasingly embarrassing manner, and William Bendix portrays Babe Ruth as a half-witted giant without any redeeming pathos." More recent assessments of the film have been overwhelmingly negative. Dan Shaughnessy of "The Boston Globe" called "The Babe Ruth Story" "the worst movie I ever saw" while "The Washington