Kill the Umpire [111574]
Released: 1950-04-27
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0
Profit: $0
Runtime: 78 mins
Popularity: 0.9615
Vote Average: 6.3
Vote Count: 6
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 [20]
William Bendix
Bill 'Two Call'
Una Merkel
Betty Johnson
Ray Collins
Jonah Evans
Gloria Henry
Lucy Johnson
Jeff Richards
Bob Landon
Connie Marshall
Suzie Johnson
William Frawley
Jimmy O'Brien
Tom D'Andrea
Roscoe Snooker
Chester Clute
Man Using Teleph
Billy Gray
Boy Playing Base
Alan Hale Jr.
Harry Shea
Harry Hayden
Hotel Manager
Tommy Ivo
Boy Playing Base
Jackie Jackson
Boy
Larry Olsen
Johnny
Almira Sessions
Baseball Spectat
Lyn Thomas
Pretty Wife
Al Thompson
Minor Role
Jeff York
Panhandle Jones
Chief Yowlachie
Indian

Trailers
  1. 1950 KILL THE UMPIRE - Trailer - William Bendix, Una Merkel