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Big Leaguer

1953, Movie, NR, 70 mins

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Director Robert Aldrich's first film, BIG LEAGUER is replete with the usual baseball movie corniness, and true fans may well be asleep before the end of the first inning. Edward G. Robinson plays John Lobert, an aging former player who now runs the tryout camp for the New York Giants in Florida. His job is to sort the wheat from the chaff among a bunch of would-be big leaguers, and, actually, the plot here is not unlike that of AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN or THE D.I., with Ro... read more leave a comment
Year: 1953
Rated NR

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Cast
Edward G. Robinson: John B. "Hans" Lobert
Vera-Ellen: Christy
Jeff Richards: Adam Polachuk
Richard Jaeckel: Bobby Bronson
William Campbell: Julie Davis
Carl Hubbell: Himself

 

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