Kill the Umpire (1950)
1h 18m
Running Time
April 27, 1950Release Date
Kill the Umpire (1950)
1h 18m
Running Time
April 27, 1950Release Date
Network & Production Companies


Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

William Bendix
Bill 'Two Call' Johnson

Una Merkel
Betty Johnson

Ray Collins
Jonah Evans

Gloria Henry
Lucy Johnson

Jeff Richards
Bob Landon

Connie Marshall
Suzie Johnson

William Frawley
Jimmy O'Brien

Tom D'Andrea
Roscoe Snooker

Alan Hale Jr.
Harry Shea (uncredited)

Phil Adams
Minor Role

Harry Hayden
Hotel Manager (uncredited)

Murray Alper
Fireman

Larry Olsen
Johnny (uncredited)

Almira Sessions
Baseball Spectator (uncredited)

Chester Clute
Man Using Telephone (uncredited)

Jeff York
Panhandle Jones (uncredited)
Media.

Details.
Release DateApril 27, 1950
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 18m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
baseball
umpire
Wiki.
Kill the Umpire is a 1950 baseball comedy film starring William Bendix and Una Merkel, directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Frank Tashlin.
Bendix two years earlier had portrayed baseball player Babe Ruth in the biographical film The Babe Ruth Story. One of the ballplayers in this picture is played by Jeff Richards, billed as Richard Taylor, a minor-league ballplayer before becoming an actor.
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