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.
Crew
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Heinz Roemheld
Original Music Composer
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Frank Tashlin
Writer
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Jean Louis
Costume Design
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Lloyd Bacon
Director
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Morris Stoloff
Music Director
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Charles Nelson
Editor
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Perry Smith
Art Direction
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James Crowe
Set Decoration
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John Beck
Producer
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Wilbur McGaugh
Assistant Director
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Lambert E. Day
Sound Engineer
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Charles Lawton Jr.
Director of Photography
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