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Columbia's Bases Full of LAUGHS!!!
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: William Bendix, Una Merkel, Ray Collins, Gloria Henry, Jeff Richards, Connie Marshall, William Frawley, Tom D'Andrea, Chester Clute, Billy Gray, Alan Hale Jr., Harry Hayden, Tommy Ivo, Jackie Jackson, Larry Olsen, Almira Sessions, Lyn Thomas, Al Thompson, Jeff York, Chief Yowlachie
Writer: Frank Tashlin (Writer)
Cinematographer: Charles Lawton Jr.
Production Designer: Perry Smith
Editor: Charles Nelson
Composer: Heinz Roemheld
Costume Designer: Jean Louis
Direction team: Wilbur McGaugh (Assistant Director)
Producer: John Beck
Production: Columbia Pictures
