Fear Strikes Out

Fear Strikes Out

1957 · 100 min · EN · NR · 7.2 (22 votes)
Dir. Robert Mulligan · Starring Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Norma Moore, Adam Williams, Perry Wilson, Peter J. Votrian · Music Elmer Bernstein

“This is Jimmy, balanced on the ragged edge of violence, twisted and trapped by a world he never made…”

Drama

True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.

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