He found himself seated on a rocket engine that propelled him into the desert, where he ended up in Doomtown - a nuclear weapons test town of homes filled with plastic dummies.Vernon K.Simpson (Ray Milland) who moonlighted undercover as St.Louis Cardinal ball player King Kelly; after his discovery of a formula for an unknown liquid substance that repelled wood, he used his ""talent"" to become an unhittable pitcher with a ball that hopped across the plate, avoided wooden bats, and baffled hittersThe Stratton Story (1949),director Sam Wood""s popular biographical drama was based upon the true story of 1930s major league Chicago White Sox pitcher Monty Stratton (Jimmy Stewart), a Texas farm boy whose sports career was cut short when a 1938 hunting accident led to the amputation of his right leg; with the support of his loving wife Ethel (June Allyson) and a wooden leg, he was able to return to minor league baseball in the mid-1940s with the Southern All-StarsAngels in the Outfield (1951), director Clarence Brown""s derivative fantasy sports comedy-drama told about how Aloysius X.Son? If you just come to realize it, what she needs is a firm hand." When fickle-minded Julie insists on remaining in her upstairs room rather than coming down to greet Preston in he parlor, he marches up to her boudoir door wielding a walking stick.Their calls stirred dozens of wailing, ""undead"" flesh-eating zombies who lumbered en masse towards them.The time period was approximately 5 years since he previous installment, about the same time that had elapsed in he meantime, while it retained continuity with plot elements from he end of the third film.