William Bendix Una Merkel Ray Collins Gloria Henry
Cinematography
Charles Lawton Jr.
Edited by
Charles Nelson
Music by
Heinz Roemheld
Distributed by
Columbia Pictures
Release date
April 27, 1950 (1950-04-27)
Running time
78 min.
Country
United States
Language
English
Kill the Umpire is a 1950 baseball comedy film starring William Bendix and Una Merkel, directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Frank Tashlin.[1]
Bendix two years earlier had portrayed baseball player Babe Ruth in the biographical film The Babe Ruth Story. One of the ballplayers in this picture is played by Jeff Richards, billed as Richard Taylor, a minor-league ballplayer before becoming an actor.[citation needed]
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