《The Hired Gun (1961)》Storyline
After selecting a bat, Joe asked to be pitched to - so he could hit some balls.One of Ray""s curve-ball pitches was hit back toward the mound and struck the ball bag.After knocking out lots of pitches, Joe nostalgically remembered his love of the hrilling game:Man, I did love this game.John Taggart (John Ashton).The new, brash Beverly Hills Police Chief Harold Lutz (Allen Garfield), only interested in impressing Mayor Ted Egan (Robert Ridgely) with his crime-fighting efforts, dressed down his officers - he called the "Alphabet Crimes" a local case (when he learned that Rosewood followed a hunch and called the FBI to help solve the case), and suspended commanding officer Bogomil for being an inept supervisor over his men.Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)A campier, lighter, more mainstream film.The third film in the Warner Bros."" series of Batman films.With three Academy Award nominations (and no wins): Best Cinematography, Best Sound, and Best Sound Effects Editing.The Commission was still suspicious that "the progeny of these apes could, in centuries to come, prove an increasing threat to the human race and conceivably end by dominating it.