The United States Steel Hour — Bang The Drum Slowly

1956 · drama · sport

26 Sep 1956. Director: Daniel Petrie. Writers: Mark Harris, Arnold Schulman. Actors: Paul Newman, Albert Salmi, Barbara Babcock, Clu Gulager. A pitcher on a major-league baseball team finds out that his catcher is desperately trying to hide something, he is dying of a terminal disease and he doesn't want the owner to find out and fire him. The United States Steel Hour was an anthology series which brought hour-long dramas to television from 1953 to 1963. The television series and the radio program that preceded it were both sponsored by the United States Steel Corporation (U. S. Steel).