KILL THE UMPIRE Original Lobby Card William Bendix Una Merkel Ray Collins

Kill the Umpire (1950)

Directed by Lloyd Bacon.

With William Bendix, Una Merkel, Ray Collins, Gloria Henry

Former baseball player Bill Johnson, portrayed by William Bendix, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah Evans (Ray Collins), 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.