Kill the Umpire
Comedy
Columbia's Bases Full of LAUGHS!!!
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.
1950-04-27
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Cast
Director
Lloyd Bacon
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)
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)