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Kill the Umpire
1950, Apr 27
1h 18m
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.
Directed by
Lloyd Bacon
Written by
Frank Tashlin
Alan Hale Jr.
Harry Shea (uncredited)
Billy Gray
Boy Playing Baseball (uncredited)
Connie Marshall
Suzie Johnson
Lyn Thomas
Pretty Wife (uncredited)
Ray Collins
Jonah Evans
William Bendix
Bill 'Two Call' Johnson
William Frawley
Jimmy O'Brien
Chief Yowlachie
Indian (uncredited)
Tommy Ivo
Boy Playing Baseball (uncredited)
Jeff York
Panhandle Jones (uncredited)
Una Merkel
Betty Johnson
Gloria Henry
Lucy Johnson
Al Thompson
Minor Role (uncredited)
Jeff Richards
Bob Landon
Harry Hayden
Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Chester Clute
Man Using Telephone (uncredited)
Almira Sessions
Baseball Spectator (uncredited)
Tom D'Andrea
Roscoe Snooker
Jackie Jackson
Boy (uncredited)
Larry Olsen
Johnny (uncredited)
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