"This is Jimmy, balanced on the ragged edge of violence, twisted and trapped by a world he never made…" 28 March 1957 Drama 100 mins
True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.
Watch the official Fear Strikes Out 1957 trailer in HD below or find more Fear Strikes Out videos on Vidimovie.
Anthony Perkins as Jimmy Piersall
Karl Malden as John Piersall
Norma Moore as Mary Piersall
Adam Williams as Doctor Brown
Perry Wilson as Mrs. John Piersall
Peter J. Votrian as Jim Piersall as a Boy
Richard Bull as Reporter Slade (uncredited)
Morgan Jones as Sandy Allen (uncredited)
Edd Byrnes as Boy in Car Assisting Jimmy Up Stairway (uncredited)
Brian G. Hutton as Bernie Sherwill (uncredited)
Bart Burns as Joe Cronin (uncredited)
Robert Mulligan Director
Alan J. Pakula Producer
Ted Berkman Screenplay
Raphael Blau Screenplay
Elmer Bernstein Original Music Composer
Haskell B. Boggs Director of Photography
Aaron Stell Editor
Bert McKay Casting
Hilyard M. Brown Art Direction
Hal Pereira Art Direction
Edith Head Costume Design
Venciendo el miedo Trailer
Gevangene van de angst Trailer
Vencendo o Medo Trailer
Venciendo el miedo Trailer
孺子雄心 Trailer
Venciendo el miedo Trailer
Venciendo el miedo Trailer
Die Nacht kennt keine Schatten Trailer
El precio del éxito Trailer
Pelon vanki Trailer
Prisonnier de la peur Trailer
Η σκιά του φόβου Trailer
Αιχμάλωτοι του φόβου Trailer
Prigioniero della paura Trailer
栄光の旅路 Trailer
Venciendo al miedo Trailer
De weg naar de roem Trailer
Frykten slår ut Trailer
Vencendo o Medo Trailer
Fruktan bryter ut Trailer
Страх вырывается наружу Trailer
Buhranlı Yıllar Trailer
The Jim Piersall Story Trailer
Venciendo el miedo Trailer
Australia 01 August 1957
Canada 28 March 1957
Germany 21 February 1958
Spain 19 October 1964
Finland 21 February 1958
France 13 December 1957
United Kingdom 24 May 1957
Italy 17 March 1958
Mexico 27 February 1958
Netherlands 20 June 1958
Portugal 19 December 1957
Sweden 30 January 1958
United States 01 March 1957
South Africa 12 August 1957
If you liked the Fear Strikes Out trailer, you may like these ones:
26 March 2026
High school student Polina is saved from bullying at her new school and makes a deal with the main bully Bars: he must pretend to be her boyfriend and protect her, and she must do everything he says.
14 June 2002
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman.
07 August 2004
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
23 July 2004
A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living.
03 August 2007
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns.
17 December 2004
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
06 December 2002
Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald.
15 March 2018
In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane en route from Tel Aviv to Paris and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda.
09 April 1965
From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling.
04 May 1984
An idyllic voyage to Tahiti in 1789 turns a crew aboard the H.M.S. Bounty against its captain when they find a tropical paradise.
13 February 2002
Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark.
05 October 2009
This film is about what the routine of everyday life can do to the human mind and psyche. It also reflects on the importance of the choices we make and how limited these choices are in the first place.
More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from Fear Strikes Out:
trailer directed by Robert Mulligan starring: Anthony Perkins Karl Malden Norma Moore.
1. Plot: (Wiki) Based on Piersall's shattering tell-all biography the film traces Piersall's rise from the sandlots of Waterbury Connecticut to the Boston Red Sox ...
Anthony Perkins (as Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall) flips out after homering in a scene from the 1957 movie "Fear Strikes Out." Karl Malden appears as ...
I made this video myself it's a tribute to one of Anthony Perkins best performances ever in the movie Fear Strikes Out. The true story of Jim Piersall a 1950s ball ...
Song by Banks.
Song by Lorde.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1957:
06 July 1957
The only son of Otari’s widow decides to serve in the serf owner’s house, and falls in love with the patron’s daughter for whom he can’t reveal his feelings to.
17 December 1957
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.
31 October 1957
Historical film covering the British Vanwall Grand Prix team behind the scenes and at the 1957 Monaco Grand Prix and British Grand Prix at Aintree.
01 January 1957
Gangster Zac Cotton and his two henchmen, Mitch and Sonny, try to get a boat to get off a tropical island after a botched robbery heist.
30 October 1957
A fateful Stranger's Meeting leads to a maelstrom of crime, deception and murder in this 64-minute British programmer.
06 November 1957
An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.
17 December 1957
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
16 February 1957
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life.
01 September 1957
George Nader plays a reporter whose career is ruined by liquor. A comeback opportunity presents itself when Nader is a bystander at the arrest of a well-known criminal.
24 October 1957
Senior public prosecutor Sänger from West Berlin has only one goal in mind: to finally be appointed to the Federal Court of Justice.
Have you watched Fear Strikes Out yet? What did you think about it?
Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1957 Paramount Pictures.