Damn Yankees

Sep 26, 1958

1h 51m

★ 6.4

It's a picture in a million! Starring that girl in a million, the red-headed darling of the Broadway show, Gwen Verdon!

Overview

Film adaptation of the George Abbott Broadway musical about a Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the Devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

Damn Yankees Trailers

Cast

Joe Hardy

Tab Hunter

Lola

Gwen Verdon

Mr. Applegate

Ray Walston

Benny Van Buren

Russ Brown

Mrs. Meg Boyd

Shannon Bolin

Smokey

Nathaniel Frey

Rocky

James Komack

Gloria Thorpe

Rae Allen

Joe Boyd

Robert Shafer

Sister Miller

Jean Stapleton

Mambo Dancer (uncredited)

Bob Fosse

Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)

Herschel Graham

Out-of-luck coach Lambeau Fields takes a rag-tag bunch of college misfits and drives them towards the football championships. In the process, this life-long loser discovers that he is a winner after all by redeeming himself, saving his relationship with his family and friends, and finding that there is indeed, no "I" in "team"!

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