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Trailer
Kill the Umpire
6.2
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1h 18m
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1950
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Released
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.

Cast
William Bendix poster
William Bendix
Bill 'Two Call' Johnson
Una Merkel poster
Una Merkel
Betty Johnson
Ray Collins poster
Ray Collins
Jonah Evans
Gloria Henry poster
Gloria Henry
Lucy Johnson
Jeff Richards poster
Jeff Richards
Bob Landon
Connie Marshall poster
Connie Marshall
Suzie Johnson
William Frawley poster
William Frawley
Jimmy O'Brien
Tom D'Andrea poster
Tom D'Andrea
Roscoe Snooker
Alan Hale Jr. poster
Alan Hale Jr.
Harry Shea (uncredited)
Harry Hayden poster
Harry Hayden
Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Larry Olsen poster
Larry Olsen
Johnny (uncredited)
Almira Sessions poster
Almira Sessions
Baseball Spectator (uncredited)
Chester Clute poster
Chester Clute
Man Using Telephone (uncredited)
Jeff York poster
Jeff York
Panhandle Jones (uncredited)
Billy Gray poster
Billy Gray
Boy Playing Baseball (uncredited)
Tommy Ivo poster
Tommy Ivo
Boy Playing Baseball (uncredited)
Jackie Jackson poster
Jackie Jackson
Boy (uncredited)
Lyn Thomas poster
Lyn Thomas
Pretty Wife (uncredited)
Al Thompson poster
Al Thompson
Minor Role (uncredited)
Chief Yowlachie poster
Chief Yowlachie
Indian (uncredited)

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