Death on the Diamond (MOD)

Death on the Diamond (MOD)And it's one, two, three strikes you're out at the old ball game forever. The St. Louis Cardinals may be a hard luck club rallying toward the pennant, but with a killer afoot, they're on a losing streak of lives! A brisk, well played matchup of whodunit and national pastime, Death on the Diamond boasts a roster of all stars who hit this improbable plot out of the park with humor and conviction. After batboy Mickey Rooney finds acid laced gloves at

who is marked for death by the mob

serial homicides

They continued humankind's long march toward civilization

an expert silversmith who's new to the community

And heightening the intensity of writer/director Ranald MacDougall's suspenseful and unsettling movie are stunning vistas of unpopulated New York: vast

the downstairs scullery maid

there's no co-pilot

In the 1923 Silent directed by Henry King (The Song of Bernadette)

yet never neglects war's unsparing personal costs

As the investigating police captain who swims against the tide of racism and rancor surrounding the case

but it might help

A disgraced hypnotist