Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attractive widow has her son in the team causes problems with his wife.Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attractive widow has her son in the team causes problems with his wife.Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attractive widow has her son in the team causes problems with his wife.
Budd Knapp
- Mr. Dawson
- (as Wilfrid Knapp)
Bill Baldwin
- Baseball Announcer
- (uncredited)
Nathaniel Benchley
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
George Blagoi
- Baseball Fan
- (uncredited)
Alexander Campbell
- Judge
- (uncredited)
Robert Carson
- Bruce's Law Partner
- (uncredited)
Kim Charney
- Little League Team Member
- (uncredited)
George Cisar
- Bailiff
- (uncredited)
Fred Coby
- Man in Stands
- (uncredited)
Gene Coogan
- Coach
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaThe "P" on Tom Ewell's hat (and his assistant coach played by Dean Jone) is supposed to represent their team mascot "the Panthers." However, it's the script style "P" of the 1950s Philadelphia Phillies that Ewell and Jones wear. The Phils were known as the "Whiz Kids in the Fifties and had many fans around the country. Curiously, the kids on the team wear hats with a different "P" style on their hats. Maybe Ewell or Jones were Phils fans.
- GoofsIn the first game Bruce (in voice-over narration) says they only had 3 base runners during the entire game and explains how each got out. Later he says it is their last at bat with 2 outs and he asks who hadn't been in yet. A small boy goes in and strikes out ending the game. Yet later in the car ride home Bruce's son (playing for the opposing team) describes how the game ended with a hit into a double play.
- ConnectionsReferences Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Featured review
Little Leagues were fairly new
Anyone expecting Little Big Leagur or the Bad News Bears or even Moochie And The Little League will be gravely disappointed. The Great American
Pasttime is a pleasant but strictly sub par family comedy about a lawyer with
wife and son who decides to coach a Little League team. This was the 50s and
the idea of the Little League baseball teams for kids was fairly new.
Tom Ewell is our harrassed and harried protagonist with wife Anne Francis who upon hearing his son's team needs a coach volunteers. He's a lawyer and that kind of training doesn't fit you for athletics.
This was the staid 50s so the concept of sports rage hadn't taken hold. Still just about every father feels he could do a better job, but note none of them volunteer.
There's some romantic rivalry as Francis doesn't like the idea of Ewell spending time with widow Ann Miller and her son ho is one of his players. Clueless Tom makes a hash out of that.
The 50s saw many idiot fathers on the big and small screen/ Rerll was only one of them.
Tom Ewell is our harrassed and harried protagonist with wife Anne Francis who upon hearing his son's team needs a coach volunteers. He's a lawyer and that kind of training doesn't fit you for athletics.
This was the staid 50s so the concept of sports rage hadn't taken hold. Still just about every father feels he could do a better job, but note none of them volunteer.
There's some romantic rivalry as Francis doesn't like the idea of Ewell spending time with widow Ann Miller and her son ho is one of his players. Clueless Tom makes a hash out of that.
The 50s saw many idiot fathers on the big and small screen/ Rerll was only one of them.
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- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
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By what name was The Great American Pastime (1956) officially released in Canada in English?
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