Big Leaguer
1953 film by Robert Aldrich / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Big Leaguer is a 1953 American sports drama film starring Edward G. Robinson and was the first film directed by Robert Aldrich.
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Big Leaguer | |
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Directed by | Robert Aldrich |
Screenplay by | Herbert Baker |
Based on | a story by John McNulty Lou Morheim |
Produced by | Matthew Rapf |
Starring | Edward G. Robinson Vera-Ellen Jeff Richards Richard Jaeckel William Campbell |
Cinematography | William C. Mellor |
Edited by | Ben Lewis |
Music by | Alberto Colombo |
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Distributed by | Loew's, Inc. |
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Running time | 71 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $498,000[1][2] |
Box office | $559,000[1] |
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Although this story is fiction, Robinson's character in it, Hans Lobert, was an actual baseball player who played for five Major League Baseball teams and managed the Philadelphia Phillies. Third-billed in the cast, Jeff Richards was a professional ballplayer before he became an actor, and Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell appears as himself.
"It was not a personal film of my status at the time," said Aldrich later. "I feel the film was good but not indicative of what I wanted to express in the motion picture medium."[3]