Fear Strikes Out(1957)

🎬100 min
📅1957-03-20
🎭Drama
⭐7.0/10

Overview

True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.

Production

Paramount Pictures

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Cast

Anthony Perkins
as Jimmy Piersall
Karl Malden
as John Piersall
Norma Moore
as Mary Piersall
Adam Williams
as Doctor Brown
Perry Wilson
as Mrs. John Piersall
Peter J. Votrian
as Jim Piersall as a Boy
Richard Bull
as Reporter Slade (uncredited)
Morgan Jones
as Sandy Allen (uncredited)
Edd Byrnes
as Boy in Car Assisting Jimmy Up Stairway (uncredited)
Brian G. Hutton
as Bernie Sherwill (uncredited)

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