Directed by:
Lloyd BaconScreenplay:
Valentine DaviesCinematography:
Joseph MacDonaldComposer:
Leigh HarlineCast:
Ray Milland, Jean Peters, Paul Douglas, Ed Begley, Ted de Corsia, Ray Collins, Jessie Royce Landis, Alan Hale Jr., Gene Evans, William Murphy, Mae Marsh (more)VOD (1)
Plots(1)
Davies, who wrote the marvelous script for MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET, came up with another winner here. Vernon, a chemist, is in love with Deborah Greenleaf (Peters), but has not popped the question because his meager salary wont support two. While developing a bug repellant for trees, he invents a solution that repels wood. A baseball fan of the first order, he concocts a clever scheme to earn additional money. Hell join a major league team as a pitcher, and secretly rub his solution on baseballs which will be repelled by the hitters wooden bats. He goes to a major league team and tries out. Naturally, the rookies scoff at the middle-aged man on the mound, but he miraculously strikes out every man he faces, his "screwball" hopping, bouncing, jerking, and flitting around the mightily swung bats. Vernon is signed as a starting pitcher and, using his secret solution, manages to win 38 games that season and almost single-handedly win the World Series for his team. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Ray Milland
UK
Best movies:
Dial M for Murder (1954)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Love Story (1970)
Jean Peters
USA
Best movies:
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Viva Zapata! (1952)
Anne of the Indies (1951)
Paul Douglas
USA
Best movies:
Clash by Night (1952)
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
Panic in the Streets (1950)
Ed Begley
USA
Best movies:
12 Angry Men (1957)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
Ted de Corsia
USA
Best movies:
The Killing (1956)
Spartacus (1960)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Ray Collins
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Heiress (1949)
Jessie Royce Landis
USA
Best movies:
Bon Voyage! (1962)
North by Northwest (1959)
Goodbye Again (1961)
Alan Hale Jr.
USA
Best movies:
It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)
The Gunfighter (1950)
Springfield Rifle (1952)
Gene Evans
USA
Best movies:
Ace in the Hole (1951)
The Sacketts (1979) (TV movie)
Storm Warning (1951)
William Murphy
USA
Best movies:
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
The Big Heat (1953)
Battleground (1949)
Mae Marsh
USA
Best movies:
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Bernadette (1943)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
Debra Paget
USA
Best movies:
The Ten Commandments (1956)
White Feather (1955)
The Haunted Palace (1963)
Bert Stevens
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Kenner G. Kemp
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Limelight (1952)
Robert Adler
USA
Best movies:
Ten North Frederick (1958)
The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
The Story of Ruth (1960)
Robert B. Williams
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
North by Northwest (1959)
The Killing (1956)
Max Wagner
Mexico
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Robert Patten
USA
Best movies:
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Airport (1970)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
Kathleen Hughes
USA
Best movies:
The Golden Blade (1953)
Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)
It Came from Outer Space (1953)
Brick Sullivan
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Love Crazy (1941)