Kill the Umpire
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.
Year: 1950
Genre: Comedy
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: William Bendix, Una Merkel, Ray Collins, Gloria Henry, Jeff Richards, Connie Marshall
Crew: Frank Tashlin (Writer), Charles Lawton Jr. (Director of Photography), Perry Smith (Art Direction), Charles Nelson (Editor), James Crowe (Set Decoration), Wilbur McGaugh (Assistant Director)
Runtime: 78 minutes
Release: Apr 27, 1950
IMDb: 6.90/10 by 7 users
Popularity: 1
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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