⚾️🍿On April 7, 1976 “The Bad News Bears" was released in theaters! Directed by Michael Ritchie (Semi-Tough, Fletch) and written by Bill Lancaster (Johnny Carpenter’s The Thing). It stars Walter Matthau as an alcoholic ex-baseball pitcher who becomes a coach for a youth baseball team known as the Bears. Alongside Matthau, the film's cast includes Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow, Joyce Van Patten, Ben Piazza, Jackie Earle Haley, and Alfred W. Lutter.🍿⚾️
How I miss the days when an actor like Walter Matthau could lead the crime drama Charlie Varrick (1973), directed by Don Siegel, and go head-to-head with mafia enforcer Joe Don Baker and crooked banker John Vernon.
rewatched A New Leaf last night and don’t think Walter Matthau has ever been put to better use. He’s 50 years old and playing the fussiest WASP playboy on earth. never would have guessed he had it in him but he does https://t.co/BaS9Hwmuxz