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Kill the Umpire (1950)

Kill the Umpire (1950)

Comedy

Columbia's Bases Full of LAUGHS!!!

Release Date: 1950, April 27
Directors: Lloyd Bacon
Countries: United States of America
Production: Columbia Pictures
Cast: Almira Sessions, Ray Collins, Billy Gray, Al Thompson, Una Merkel, Jeff Richards, Harry Hayden, William Frawley, Jackie Jackson, Chief Yowlachie, Alan Hale Jr., William Bendix

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

baseball umpire