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Bookmark this pageFear Strikes Out (1956)
Director: Robert Mulligan
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
In his autobiography, baseball star Jim Piersall described his childhood (Depression-era poverty, Catholicism, aggressive father, mentally unstable mother), his career with the Boston Red Sox and his years of battling with schizophrenia. The film is in effect a psychoanalysis of the book, concluding (big surprise) that Jim's breakdown was all Dad's fault. The '50s-style confrontations between autocratic Malden and sensitive Perkins draw quite entertainingly on the precepts of Freud and the conventions of melodrama. It's a little poky and tentative, but a promising start by the Pakula-Mulligan team.Author: BBa
Cast & crew
Director: Robert Mulligan
Producer: Alan Pakula
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Norma Moore, Adam Williams, Brian G Hutton full cast
Duration: 101 mins
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