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It Happens Every Spring is a 1949 American comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Ray Milland, Jean Peters and Paul Douglas . Plot. A college professor is working on a long-term scientific experiment when a baseball comes through the window, destroying all of his glassware and spilling the fluids that the flasks and test tubes contained.
It Happens Every Spring: Directed by Lloyd Bacon. With Ray Milland, Jean Peters, Paul Douglas, Ed Begley. A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.
An overlooked charmer of a comedy, 20th-Century-Fox's It Happens Every Spring (1949) opens with a mock-sappy duet of the title song played over credits and a series of well-executed cartoony drawings of animals frolicking amorously in the springtime (boy sheep chases girl sheep, boy bunny chases girl bunny, etc.). The movie proper opens on a ...
A college chemistry professor, Vernon Simpson (Ray Milland), invents a substance that keeps insects away from wood. But after a baseball crashes through the window and gets coated in the fluid ...
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It Happens Every Spring. In this comedy starring Ray Milland, Jean Peters and Paul Douglas, a college professor discovers a compound that makes baseballs repel wood. Soon, he's a pitching sensation! 456 IMDb 6.8 1 h 26 min 1949. 13+. Comedy · Science Fiction · Cheerful · Outlandish. Available to rent or buy. Rent. SD $3.79. Buy. SD $9.89.
Summaries. A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery. A college professor is working on a long term experiment when a baseball comes through the window destroying all his glassware.
It Happens Every Spring is a whimsical tale of an innocent sports era that has long passed. It's the kind of story one might imagine as a Disney film from the sixties or seventies starring Kurt Russell as The World's Greatest Pitcher or some other lame inappropriate title.
