DVD NEW: Angels In The Outfield - 1951 Comedy, An Angel Helps Gives A Team Help?

Description: Angels in the Outfield is a 1951 American comedy film produced and directed by Clarence Brown and starring Paul Douglas and Janet Leigh. Based on a story by Richard Conlin, the film is about a young woman reporter who blames the Pittsburgh Pirates' losing streak on their abusive manager, who begins hearing the voice of an angel promising to help the team if he changes his ways. The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on September 7, 1951. It was U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's favorite movie. REAR COVER The hamers couldn't hit water if they fell our of a boar. The fielders must be using frying pans imstead of baseball mits. it looks like the lowly Pinsturgh Pirates haven't got a prayer... until the prayers of a young orphan girl ger the Pirates some celestial support! Comedy and charm for the winning lineup of Angels in the Outfield starring Paul Douglas as the team's short-fased manager. "Dogs have fleas, managers have sportswriters" he grouses to a columnist (Janet Leigh covering the team. Adding to the fun are game footage from back in the day (buffs will love to spot the starst support from Keenan Wymn. Spring Byington and more familiar talents plas umbilled bits by baseball greats joe DiMaggio and Ty Cobb. One more footnote abour this niry 50s diamond: President Eisenhower called it his favorite movie. Batter up? DETAILED PLOT With baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates in last place, their combative, foul-mouthed manager Guffy McGovern has plenty to complain about. His abusive language toward players is publicized by local newspaper reporter and former "household hints" writer Jennifer Paige, who is thoroughly unimpressed with his style of management. Guffy's fortune changes while wandering through Forbes Field in search of his good luck charm one night, where he is accosted by the voice of an angel, who hints at having been a ballplayer during his earthly life. As the spokes-angel for the Heavenly Choir Nine, a celestial team of deceased ballplayers, he begins bestowing "miracles" upon the Pirates—but only on the condition that Guffy put a moratorium on swearing and fighting. He acquiesces and, with the help of the invisible ghosts of past baseball greats, the Pirates make it into the pennant race. During a game, 8-year-old orphan Bridget White insists she can see the angels helping out the "live" ballplayers—understandably so, since it was Bridget's prayers to the Archangel Gabriel which prompted the angel to visit McGovern in the first place. Jennifer inadvertently transforms Bridget's angelic visions into a nationwide news story, causing McGovern no end of trouble. After a line drive hits him in the head during a game, Guffy himself deliriously confirms Bridget's claims to the press. He falls into the hands of vengeful sportscaster Fred Bayles, who has been scheming to have Guffy thrown out of baseball and persuades the Commissioner of Baseball to investigate the manager's fitness to lead the team. Complication piles upon complication until the pennant-deciding game, wherein Guffy is forced to rely exclusively upon the talents of his ballplayers – notably "over the hill" pitcher Saul Hellman, who the angel declares will be "signed up" by the Heavenly Choir team shortly. Guffy also wins over Jennifer, and they plan to adopt young Bridget.

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