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.
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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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
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]