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The Kid from Left Field is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Harmon Jones released in USA on 1 july 1953 with Dan Dailey
The Kid from Left Field (1953)
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Add to a movie listThe 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.
The film was remade for television in 1979, starring Gary Coleman, Gary Collins and Robert Guillaume.
Synopsis
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.Actors
Dan Dailey
(Larry 'Pop' Cooper)
Anne Bancroft
(Marian Foley)
Billy Chapin
(Christie Cooper)
Lloyd Bridges
(Pete Haines)
Fess Parker
(McDougal)
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