Kill the Umpire (1950)
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.
Director: Lloyd Bacon
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William Bendix as Bill 'Two Call' Johnson |
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Una Merkel as Betty Johnson |
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Ray Collins as Jonah Evans |
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Gloria Henry as Lucy Johnson |
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Jeff Richards as Bob Landon |
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Connie Marshall as Suzie Johnson |
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William Frawley as Jimmy O'Brien |
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Tom D'Andrea as Roscoe Snooker |
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Chester Clute as Man Using Telephone (uncredited) |
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Billy Gray as Boy Playing Baseball (uncredited) |
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Alan Hale Jr. as Harry Shea (uncredited) |
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Harry Hayden as Hotel Manager (uncredited) |
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Tommy Ivo as Boy Playing Baseball (uncredited) |
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Jackie Jackson as Boy (uncredited) |
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Larry Olsen as Johnny (uncredited) |
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Almira Sessions as Baseball Spectator (uncredited) |
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Lyn Thomas as Pretty Wife (uncredited) |
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Al Thompson as Minor Role (uncredited) |
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Jeff York as Panhandle Jones (uncredited) |
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Chief Yowlachie as Indian (uncredited) |
| Writing | Frank Tashlin | Writer |
| Camera | Charles Lawton Jr. | Director of Photography |
| Art | Perry Smith | Art Direction |
| Editing | Charles Nelson | Editor |
| Art | James Crowe | Set Decoration |
| Directing | Wilbur McGaugh | Assistant Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Jean Louis | Costume Design |
| Sound | Lambert E. Day | Sound Engineer |
| Sound | Heinz Roemheld | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Morris Stoloff | Music Director |
| Production | John Beck | Producer |
| Directing | Lloyd Bacon | Director |
