Kill the Umpire
6.3
78 minutes
4/27/1950
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 List
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)
Jackie Jackson
as Boy (uncredited)
Larry Olsen
as Johnny (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)