Reviewed By Jason Lockard
Baseball
is arguably the national pastime! It featured some of the great legends of the sport such as Babe Ruth,
Mickey Mantle, Jackie Robinson, Ty Cobb and Roger Maris, just to name a few. People have enjoyed
films about this great sport and it’s legends for many years.
A few years ago Mill Creek Entertainment brought us the fans a collection of three films that centered around the great sport of baseball! Let’s take a look at the films included in this collection.
Our Rating System:
****=Don’t Miss it!
***=Worth a look.
**=An Ok way to spend an evening.
*=You haven’t missed anything.
Kill The Umpire (1950) – A baseball fanatic reluctantly accepts a job as a minor league umpire, when his wife threatens to leave him unless he finds steady employment. What follows is a series of hilarious events. ***
The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) – The great Jackie Robinson plays himself in this film of tracking his ups and downs as the first African-American professional baseball player in the major leagues! ***
Safe At Home! (1962) – A young boy brags to his friends that he knows baseball Hall of Famers Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, and must learn his lesson when he travels to the Yankees’ spring training camp to prove his non-existent friendship. **
This collection is really nice you get a very funny comedy, a biopic staring the great legend himself and a comedy drama that has the final film appearance of William Frawley.
The three films are housed on one DVD. Kill the umpire and The Jackie Robinson story are in there original full screen format and Safe at home is presented in widescreen format. The films look and sound really good for the age of these films. The DVD menu is easy to access. There is no bonus features, but your getting three classic baseball films for under ten bucks! That’s a home run for me!
So if you love classic sports films as much as I do! I highly suggest you head over to www.MillCreekEnt.com and pick up a copy today!
Moral Rating: adult situations
Audience: teens and adults
Genre: sport / drama / romance
Length: 4 hours
DVD Released: 2015
DVD Rating: A+
A few years ago Mill Creek Entertainment brought us the fans a collection of three films that centered around the great sport of baseball! Let’s take a look at the films included in this collection.
Our Rating System:
****=Don’t Miss it!
***=Worth a look.
**=An Ok way to spend an evening.
*=You haven’t missed anything.
Kill The Umpire (1950) – A baseball fanatic reluctantly accepts a job as a minor league umpire, when his wife threatens to leave him unless he finds steady employment. What follows is a series of hilarious events. ***
The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) – The great Jackie Robinson plays himself in this film of tracking his ups and downs as the first African-American professional baseball player in the major leagues! ***
Safe At Home! (1962) – A young boy brags to his friends that he knows baseball Hall of Famers Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, and must learn his lesson when he travels to the Yankees’ spring training camp to prove his non-existent friendship. **
This collection is really nice you get a very funny comedy, a biopic staring the great legend himself and a comedy drama that has the final film appearance of William Frawley.
The three films are housed on one DVD. Kill the umpire and The Jackie Robinson story are in there original full screen format and Safe at home is presented in widescreen format. The films look and sound really good for the age of these films. The DVD menu is easy to access. There is no bonus features, but your getting three classic baseball films for under ten bucks! That’s a home run for me!
So if you love classic sports films as much as I do! I highly suggest you head over to www.MillCreekEnt.com and pick up a copy today!
Moral Rating: adult situations
Audience: teens and adults
Genre: sport / drama / romance
Length: 4 hours
DVD Released: 2015
DVD Rating: A+
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