Fear Strikes Out (1957)
This is Jimmy, balanced on the ragged edge of violence, twisted and trapped by a world he never made…
True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.
- Date of release
- 1957-03-28
- TMDB
- 7.2 / 10 (22)
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Robert Mulligan
Casting
- Anthony Perkins — Jimmy Piersall
- Karl Malden — John Piersall
- Norma Moore — Mary Piersall
- Adam Williams — Doctor Brown
- Perry Wilson — Mrs. John Piersall
- Peter J. Votrian — Jim Piersall as a Boy
- Richard Bull — Reporter Slade (uncredited)
- Morgan Jones — Sandy Allen (uncredited)
- Edd Byrnes — Boy in Car Assisting Jimmy Up Stairway (uncredited)
- Brian G. Hutton — Bernie Sherwill (uncredited)
- Bart Burns — Joe Cronin (uncredited)
Interesting facts
- Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1
Fear Strikes Out is a 1957 American biographical sports drama film depicting the life and career of American baseball All-Star player Jimmy Piersall. It is based on Piersall's 1955 memoir Fear Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Story, co-written with Al Hirshberg. The film stars Anthony Perkins as Piersall and Karl Malden as his father, and it was the first film directed by Robert Mulligan.
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