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The Kid from Left Field is a 1953 baseball comedy 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 . The film was remade for television in ...
The Kid from Left Field: Directed by Harmon Jones. With Dan Dailey, Anne Bancroft, Billy Chapin, Lloyd Bridges. Former ballplayer Larry Cooper secretly and unofficially manages a struggling major league club, the Bisons, through his nine year old son, Christie, who is a bat-boy for the team.
- (463)
- Comedy, Drama, Family
- Harmon Jones
- 1953-06-29
Peanut vendor and washed-up baseball player "Coop" Cooper teaches his 9-year-old son all the game's finer points. When Christy becomes the new bat boy, the y...
- 80 min
- 1247
- Chzz77 Dacan
The Kid from Left Field marked the first time that Anne Bancroft received above title billing. Dan Dailey and director Harmon Jones had previously collaborated on the 1952 Twentieth Century-Fox production The Pride of St. Louis, about pitcher Dizzy Dean (see below). The Kid from Left Field was remade in 1979 as an NBC television movie. The ...
The Kid from Left Field (1953) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. Peanut vendor and washed-up baseball player "Coop" Cooper (Dan Dailey) teaches his 9-year-old son, Christy (Billy Chapin), all the game's finer points. When Christy ...
- Drama
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Harmon Jones. Director. Jack Sher. Writer. Coop's an ex-ballplayer is now a peanut vendor, who takes too much of an interest in the game. But he's passed on his craze for baseball to his son, Christie. When his dad gets fired, Chris makes friends with the former team owner's niece (and her boyfriend Pete), and not only gets his dad's job back ...
