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Fear Strikes Out: Directed by Robert Mulligan. With Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Norma Moore, Adam Williams. True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.
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Fear Strikes Out is a 1957 American biographical sports drama film depicting the life and career of American baseball player Jimmy Piersall. It is based on Piersall's 1955 memoir Fear Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Story, co-written with Al Hirshberg. The film stars Anthony Perkins as Piersall and Karl Malden as his father, and it was the first ...
Fear Strikes Out (1957) Movie Info Synopsis Ever since Jimmy Piersall (Anthony Perkins) was a boy, his baseball-obsessed father (Karl Malden) has pushed the sport on him.
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Fear Strikes Out (1957) -- (Movie Clip) I Showed 'Em! Never happened but represents similar incidents, Jim Piersall (Anthony Perkins), hits an inside-the-park home run at Fenway, Dad (Karl Malden) and wife (Norma Moore) in the stands, then wigs out, in Fear Strikes Out, 1957.
Mar 29, 2019 · “Fear Strikes Out” is a classic movie in that vein—and it’s shadowed by perhaps the definitive classic of the genre, Ray’s “Rebel Without a Cause.” (There’s an odd but unmistakable ...
