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Bill Johnson is a former baseball player whose fanatical devotion to the game has cost him several jobs. He remains steadfast in one thing: he hates umpires. Matters are complicated by the fact that his father-in-law Evans is a retired umpire.
Oct 16, 2017 · Two years after ingloriously impersonating the Bambino in The Babe Ruth Story — which arguably is the all-time worst baseball film — William Bendix is perfectly cast as Bill Johnson, a boorish ex-ballplayer and steadfast fan-atic.
With his wife (Merkel) threatening to take the kids and leave, Bill's father-in-law Jonah (Collins), a retired ump, comes up with a solution and sends him to umpire school despite Bill's contempt for the guy the fans love to hate.
Bill Johnson (William Bendix) is a former ballplayer who loves baseball and hates umpires. But when a sustained period of unemployment leaves him desperate for a job, his father-in-law (Ray...
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- Lloyd Bacon
- Comedy
- William Bendix, Una Merkel, Ray Collins
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.
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- Columbia Pictures
- Lloyd Bacon
399 quotes from Bill Johnson: 'If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.', 'Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil', and 'Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.'.
Bendix's name in the movie is Bill Johnson and he goes to umpire school under protest because he hates umpires. At school, he causes many funny problems trying to be thrown out so that he can tell his wife that at least he tried.
