The Kid from Left Field
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Director Harmon Jones Music director Lionel Newman Writer Jack Sher Language English | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Sport Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1953 Awards Golden Globe Award for Best New Star of the Year – Actor Cast Dan Dailey (Larry 'Pop' Cooper), Anne Bancroft (Marian Foley), Billy Chapin (Christie Cooper), Lloyd Bridges (Pete Haines), Fess Parker (McDougal)Similar movies Southpaw , Bull Durham , Fever Pitch , Cars , Foxcatcher , The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! Tagline The Grand Picture About the Grandest Game of All You'll Love Every Wonderful Minute of It! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Kid from Left Field is a 1953 baseball film starring Dan Dailey, Anne Bancroft, Lloyd Bridges, and Billy Chapin. The film marked the reunion of Dailey and director Harmon Jones who had teamed up at 20th Century Fox a year earlier in another baseball film, the biographical The Pride of St. Louis.
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The film was remade for television in 1979, starring Gary Coleman, Gary Collins and Robert Guillaume.
Plot
Former ballplayer 'Coop' (Dailey) is working as a peanut vendor at the ballpark of a struggling major league club, the Bisons. He has passed on his love of the game to his son Christie (Chapin), but after sneaking his son into the game one too many times, he is fired from his job. Christie ingratiates himself with the former owner's niece (Bancroft) and gets his father's job back as well as a position as batboy for himself.
As a publicity stunt, Christie is named their youngest manager ever, but when he falls ill, Coop replaces him as manager. The Bisons win the pennant and earn a spot in the World Series.
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