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Kill the Umpire

6.3 78 mins Comedy   1950
Columbia Pictures  
Director(s): Lloyd Bacon

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.

Casts of Kill the Umpire

William Bendix

as Bill 'Two Call' Johnson

Una Merkel

as Betty Johnson

Ray Collins

as Jonah Evans

Gloria Henry

as Lucy Johnson

Jeff Richards

as Bob Landon

Connie Marshall

as Suzie Johnson

William Frawley

as Jimmy O'Brien

Tom D'Andrea

as Roscoe Snooker

Chester Clute

as Man Using Telephone (uncredited)

Billy Gray

as Boy Playing Baseball (uncredited)

Alan Hale Jr.

as Harry Shea (uncredited)

Harry Hayden

as Hotel Manager (uncredited)

Tommy Ivo

as Boy Playing Baseball (uncredited)

Jackie Jackson

as Boy (uncredited)

Larry Olsen

as Johnny (uncredited)

Almira Sessions

as Baseball Spectator (uncredited)

Lyn Thomas

as Pretty Wife (uncredited)

Al Thompson

as Minor Role (uncredited)

Jeff York

as Panhandle Jones (uncredited)

Chief Yowlachie

as Indian (uncredited)

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