Girls Can Play (1937)

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Country: USA
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama
Release: 1937-06-23
Director: Lambert Hillyer
Writers: Lambert Hillyer , Albert DeMond
Language: English
Stars: Julie Bishop , Charles Quigley , Rita Hayworth , John Gallaudet , George McKay , Gene Morgan , Patricia Farr , Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams , Joseph Crehan , John Tyrrell
Runtime: 59 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Girls Can Play , Girls Can Play (United Kingdom) , 麗人野球団 (Japan) , Girls Can Play (United States of America) , Miss Casey at the Bat (United States of America) , Jogo de Saias (Brazil) , Fielder's Field (United States of America)
Plot: Foy Harris (John Gallaudet) is a bootlegger selling illegal booze and also running a girl's professional softball team and is romancing the team's catcher Sue Collins (Rita Hayworth). The murder of one of the team members gets a police detective, Lieutenant Flannigan (Guinn "Big Boy" Williams and Jimmy Jones (Charles Quigley) a dim-witted, cub newspaper sports reporter involved. The reporter also has a romance going with the team's ace pitcher Ann Casey (Julie Bishop as Jacqueline Wells.)
IMDB:tt0028933