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- 1951
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 39 m
- 1951
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 39 m
Summary The brash and abusive manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team receives the help of an angel to win games and to become a better person in the process.
Directed By: Clarence Brown
Written By: Dorothy Kingsley, George Wells, Richard Conlin
- 1951
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 39 m
- 1951
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 39 m
Angels in the Outfield
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Summary The brash and abusive manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team receives the help of an angel to win games and to become a better person in the process.
Directed By: Clarence Brown
Written By: Dorothy Kingsley, George Wells, Richard Conlin
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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Clarence Brown has carved a tremendously satisfying filmization from a script [based on a story by Richard Conlin] that, from every evidence, could have gone completely haywire if handled clumsily, dealing as it does with fantasy. Religious angle also presented a delicate situation, but Brown has handled it all masterfully.
Great performances by all make this a little gem of a film.
Forget the wan 1994 remake and check out the sweet 1951 original. The great Paul Douglas, Janet Leigh and Donna Corcoran star in this fantasy about how the hapless Pittsburgh Pirates get help at bat from angels who were former baseball players. [27 Dec 1996, p.F24]
Clarence Brown, who produced and directed, and Dorothy Kingsley and George Wells, the scenarists, were, it is apparent, not interested in facts. But they make convincing and thoroughly charming the legends they wish to purvey.
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