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Columbia Pictures
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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.
William Bendix
Bill 'Two Call' Johnson
Una Merkel
Betty Johnson
Ray Collins
Jonah Evans
Gloria Henry
Lucy Johnson
Jeff Richards
Bob Landon
Connie Marshall
Suzie Johnson
William Frawley
Jimmy O'Brien
Tom D'Andrea
Roscoe Snooker
Chester Clute
Man Using Telephone (uncredited)
Billy Gray
Boy Playing Baseball (uncredited)
Alan Hale Jr.
Harry Shea (uncredited)
Harry Hayden
Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Tommy Ivo
Boy Playing Baseball (uncredited)
Almira Sessions
Baseball Spectator (uncredited)
Lyn Thomas
Pretty Wife (uncredited)
Al Thompson
Minor Role (uncredited)
Jeff York
Panhandle Jones (uncredited)
Chief Yowlachie
Indian (uncredited)
Charles Lawton Jr.
Director of Photography
Jean Louis
Costume Design
Lloyd Bacon
Director
John Beck
Producer
Morris Stoloff
Music Director
Heinz Roemheld
Original Music Composer
Frank Tashlin
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