Bang the Drum Slowly

(1956)

52 minutes

Drama / Sports / Made for TV Movie for The United States Steel Hour

Directed Daniel Petrie

Cast:
  
Rudy Bond as Dutch 
Clu Gulager as Coker 
Arch Johnson as Goose  
Georgann Johnson as Holly 
John McGovern as Mr. Moors 
Paul Newman as Henry Wiggen 
George Peppard as Piney Woods 
Bert Remsen as Horse 
Albert Salmi as Bruce Pierson 
Allen Leaf as Mick
Ann Thomas as Telephone Operator
Arnold Schulman as Writer
 
Major League Baseball player with a terminal illness, Hodgkin's Disease, and wants to keep the team owner and fellow players with the fictional New York Mammoths from finding out his secret.