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Kill the Umpire

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 |1h 18m |  Comedy

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Cast

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William Bendix

Bill 'Two Call' Johnson

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Una Merkel

Betty Johnson

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Ray Collins

Jonah Evans

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Gloria Henry

Lucy Johnson

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Jeff Richards

Bob Landon

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Connie Marshall

Suzie Johnson

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William Frawley

Jimmy O'Brien

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Tom D'Andrea

Roscoe Snooker

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Alan Hale Jr.

Harry Shea (uncredited)

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Harry Hayden

Hotel Manager (uncredited)

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Almira Sessions

Baseball Spectator (uncredited)

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Chester Clute

Man Using Telephone (uncredited)

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Jeff York

Panhandle Jones (uncredited)

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Billy Gray

Boy Playing Baseball (uncredited)

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Tommy Ivo

Boy Playing Baseball (uncredited)

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Lyn Thomas

Pretty Wife (uncredited)

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Al Thompson

Minor Role (uncredited)

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Chief Yowlachie

Indian (uncredited)

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Status

Released

Language

English

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