Release Date

27 Apr, 1950

Runtime

01:18: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Columbia's Bases Full of LAUGHS!!!

Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah Evans, a retired umpire, and enters an umpire-training school. Assigned to the Texas League, he does fine until the championship play-offs when a riot develops over one of his calls. The involved player is knocked unconscious in the proceedings and cannot verify that Bill made the correct call. Despite lynch mob plans to at least tar-and-feather him, Bill's family - his daughters Lucy (Gloria Henry and Susan and his wife Betty - help Bill reach the ballpark safely the next day through a series of hair-raising encounters.

Original Title

Kill the Umpire

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Actors

William Bendix

Una Merkel

Ray Collins

Gloria Henry

Jeff Richards

Connie Marshall

William Frawley

Tom D'Andrea

Chester Clute

Billy Gray

Alan Hale Jr.

Harry Hayden

Tommy Ivo

Jackie Jackson

Larry Olsen

Almira Sessions

Lyn Thomas

Al Thompson

Jeff York

Chief Yowlachie

Crew

Frank Tashlin

Charles Lawton Jr.

Perry Smith

Charles Nelson

James Crowe

Wilbur McGaugh

Jean Louis

Lambert E. Day

Heinz Roemheld

Morris Stoloff

John Beck

Lloyd Bacon