Baseball Double Feature - Kill the Umpire / Safe at Home
by Lloyd Bacon, Walter Doniger
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Actor: Don Collier, Mickey Mantle, Patricia Barry, Roger Maris, William FrawleyDirector: Lloyd Bacon, Walter Doniger
Brand: VARIOUS
Producer: John Beck
Producer: Tom Naud
Writer: Tom Naud
Writer: Frank Tashlin
Writer: Robert Dillon
Writer: Steven Ritch
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 162 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-04-03
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Baseball Double Feature - Kill the Umpire / Safe at Home
DVD Review: Another Lloyd Bacon Winner With An Early Look At `Riley'
Summary: 4 Stars
"Kill The Umpire" is a really a funny movie, something Director Lloyd Bacon produced by the carload back in "the classic era." Bacon's movies were fast-moving and entertaining, and this was no exception. If you liked William Bendix in his mid-1950s TV show, "Life Of Riley," you'll like this film. He plays the same type of guy.
Whether you enjoy baseball or, you'll get a lot of laughs out of it, too. It's just simply a goofy and likable comedy, filled with the kind of characters you'd see in a late '40s/early '50s comedy. What's nice about the older films, too, is that you actually see whole families: dad, mom and a couple of kids.
Actually, you more you know about baseball, the more you'll just shake your in disbelief at some of the things you'll see in this story because they could never happen today, or even back in 1950. (i.e. a fan coming out of the stands and punching an umpire several times over the course of a minute, and then ump slugging him....and nobody arrested?)
Anyway, Bendix is very good and the supporting case, led by underrated actor Tom D'Andrea, is fun to watch, too.
This film also will remind older film buffs of silent movie comedies with a wild scene at the end you have to see to believe. (Hint: Bendix winds up "water skiing down city streets, being pulled by an ambulance).
The second half of this twin-bill DVD, "Safe At Home," is so bad it's not even worth discussing. Suffice to say that even die-hard Yankees fans can't praise this clunker which stars real-life heroes Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris.
Description of Baseball Double Feature - Kill the Umpire / Safe at Home
No Description Available.Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: UN
Release Date: 3-APR-2007
Media Type: DVD
Kill the Umpire and Safe at Home reside cozily on this family-friendly disc, a pair of entertaining movies about baseball-crazy characters with very different reasons for getting close to the game. The 1950 Kill the Umpire stars William Bendix as Bill Johnson, a working man so enamored of America's pastime that he regularly loses jobs because he can't stay out of his favorite New York ballpark when he's supposed to be at the office. Loudly disdainful of all umpires, Bill gets both a blessing and a comeuppance when his father-in-law (Ray Collins), a retired ump, sends him off to umpire school to learn the profession he deserves. After a lot of resistance, Bill understands the basic nobility of being the guy people love to hate despite also being necessary to baseball. The script is by Frank Tashlin, the animation director who would soon have better things to do in the 1950s and beyond, such as directing Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? and guiding Jerry Lewis in some of his best vehicles. Indeed, Kill the Umpire, in many ways, looks like a collection of old cartoon gags connected by Bendix?s charming performance. But under the sure hand of seasoned director Lloyd Bacon (Knute Rockne All-American), it all comes together nicely.
The 1962 Safe at Home is built around the presence of New York Yankees stars Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle, who prove stiff but game playing themselves in the story of a little boy who gets in trouble for overstating his friendship with them. Young Hutch Lawton (Bryan Russell), a motherless child trying hard to help his preoccupied dad (Don Collier) build a business, brags to his Little League team that he knows Maris and Mantle, then sets out on a journey to talk the legendary sluggers into going back with him to meet the team. William Frawley (who also appears in Kill the Umpire) helps keep the pace going as the Yankees' manager, and Patricia Barry is a welcome presence as Mr. Lawton's love interest. --Tom Keogh
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