9 of 11 people found this review helpful. Bill calls a close play at the plate in a championship game and the home team fans want his head and Bill has to find a way to umpire the next game without getting killed beforehand. She works her charms on the show's producer and he... Carnie owner Buck Rankin marries local girl Helen and plans to go straight, but after a brawl ends up with a twenty-year sentence for manslaughter. Action Crime Was this review helpful to you? Bill does his best to get the coach at the school to send him home, but does later see the importance of umpires in the game and starts taking the game seriously.

An umpire-hating ex-baseball player loses many jobs because his passion for watching ball games during working hours but he decides to combine business with pleasure by becoming an umpire himself. Certificate: Passed While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter. Certificate: Passed Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Johnson must disguise himself as a woman, and engage in several madcap subterfuges, to get to an important game on time, but his reputation is restored when the injured catcher recovers and praises him for his honesty as an umpire. He graduates and is assigned, with his friend Roscoe Snooker, to the Texas League, where he painfully finds out how seriously Texans take their baseball. Kill the Umpire is climaxed by a zany chase sequence scripted by former cartoon director Frank Tashlin. Bendix two years earlier had portrayed baseball player Bill Johnson is a former baseball player whose fanatical devotion to the game has cost him several jobs. A retired mob accountant is drawn back in when his brothers, who have recently made a hit for the organization, decide to go to the authorities.

While captive, the doctor analyzes Wilson as though he were a patient. Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson (William Bendix'), failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah Evans (Ray Collins), a retired umpire, and enters an umpire-training school. An executive lets an attractive cook talk him into taking a job as butler. Rating, 8.Looking for something to watch?

During the Cold War, the British and Soviet Intelligence services attempt to out-fox one another using the homesick double-Agent Krasnevin a.k.a. The crowd accepts this, although quickly reversing its opinion again after Johnson, inevitably, makes another call they do not like. Upset about a new Broadway musical's mockery of Greek mythology, the goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth and lands a part in the show. Alexander Eberlin (Laurence Harvey) as a pawn in the complex spy-game. Certificate: Passed Comedy Bill Johnson loves baseball, so much that his following causes him to be fired from many jobs and starts to drive his wife, Betty, nuts.

Crime Certificate: GP Certificate: Passed Certificate: Passed A real treat. After Duke Anderson is released from prison after ten years for taking the rap for a scion of a Mafia family, he cashes in a debt of honor with the mob to bankroll a caper. Look back at the leading ladies of the 1980s who made their mark with iconic roles (and some major hairstyles, too).Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? This was a very enjoyable movie with a fun and pleasant script. Kill the Umpire features Bill Johnson, a working man so enamored of America’s pastime that he regularly loses jobs because he can’t stay out of his favorite New York ballpark when he’s supposed to … Use the HTML below. Bill's father in law, a former big league umpire, enrolls him in an umpire school, but Bill's main pastime at ball games is to yell at umpires so he doesn't embrace the idea. Kill the Umpire Approved | 1h 18min | Comedy , Sport | 27 April 1950 (USA) An umpire-hating ex-baseball player loses many jobs because his passion for watching ball games during working hours but he decides to combine business with pleasure by becoming an umpire himself. The film's climax is a manic chase scene, scripted by animator and future A cuckolded embezzler on the verge of suicide is helped by a tout, an alcoholic playwright, and a pick-up girl to reimburse the money with a gambling sting. Kill the Umpire is a 1950 baseball comedy film starring William Bendix and Una Merkel, directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Frank Tashlin. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. When a pregnant Helen vows to wait for ...

In Buenos Aires, a man who has decreed that his daughters must marry in order of age allows an American dancer to perform at his club under the condition that he play suitor to his second-oldest daughter. In order to cover up his philandering ways, a married Broadway producer sets one of his dancers up on a date with a chorus girl for whom he had bought a gift, but the two dancers fall in love for real. Decent special effects camera-work with Bendix having to see double at times.

Comedy Bendix and D'Andrea having the same chemistry and performances from their Life of Riley days, while Merkel, Collins, and Frawley are fine support. Gangster Hal Wilson takes psychiatrist Dr. Shelby hostage. Kill the Umpire (1950) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The involved player is knocked unconscious in the …


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