Damn Yankees (1967)

Name: Damn Yankees
Genre: Comedy, Music, Fantasy
Released: 1967-04-08

1h 40m

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April 8, 1967
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Plot.

Joe Boyd, an aging Washington Senators fan, would sell his soul for the Senators to beat the New York Yankees and win the pennant. Enter Mr. Applegate, who offers to turn Boyd into Joe Hardy, a powerful young baseball player, in exchange for his soul. When Boyd agrees, he becomes Hardy and leads the Senators on a winning streak. When he starts to miss his wife, though, and questions the deal, Applegate sends temptress Lola into the mix.

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Release Date
April 8, 1967

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 40m

Content Rating
NR

Genres
Comedy Music Fantasy

Last updated: 2025-02-13

This Movie Is About.

baseball

wish

based on play or musical

soul selling

broadway musical

pact with the devil

Wiki.

Damn Yankees! is a 1967 American TV adaptation directed by Kirk Browning of the 1955 baseball musical Damn Yankees, itself based on Douglass Wallop's 1954 novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant.

Longtime sportscaster and NBC host Joe Garagiola supplied an on-camera set-up to the background for the story’s premise of envy of the successful New York Yankees team.

The pop-art production design and staging featured collage animation and early examples of color Chroma key compositing to achieve traveling mattes for TV.

It was recorded at NBC's Brooklyn Studios and “colorcast“ on April 8, 1967 as a production of a relaunched General Electric Theater which ran from the late 1960s into the early 1970s.