Bingo Long is the sort of movie that sends you out feeling happy about the world.

| Apr 11, 2024

[Bingo Long is] a fine movie which gives an important recreation of our country's past in a spirit full of hope and good cheer. When's the last time you heard a ring of applause at the end of a movie?

| Apr 11, 2024

I cannot attest to the accuracy of this highly original film, but it looks and feels right, and life with [ballplayers like Josh] Gibson, Satchell Paige, Cool Poppa Bell and Judy Johnson must have been like this.

| Apr 11, 2024

The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings is a terrific summer movie, full of fun. It's almost like going to a baseball game, only it's air conditioned -- the fans talk back to the screen, cheer the heroes, advise them, boo the bad guys.

| Apr 11, 2024

It is an ebullient, free-wheeling story, filled with high good humor, parades, vaudeville turns, fabulous feats both on and off the diamond -- all backed by a lilting jazz score.

| Apr 11, 2024

A sparkling, brisk, very entertaining motion picture that deals with the adventures and misadventures of the league and a rebellious team.

| Apr 11, 2024

[Bingo Long] carefully blends comedy and social history.

| Apr 11, 2024

The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars And Motor Kings is as charming and strangely funny as its title.

| Apr 11, 2024

[It] might seem like a pleasant enough diversion. What will ultimately emerge, however, in the process of evolution and reevaluation will be a minor comedy classic cut from the same bolt of cloth as... Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting.

| Apr 11, 2024

Taken, then, less as history and more as just fun, Bingo Long is a good time at the old ball park. The principal source of the good time is the performance of James Earl Jones as Leon Carter, the long ball-hitting catcher for the All-Stars.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 11, 2024

It Is clear that the film wants to be a jolly and entertaining experience for the mass audience. Most of the time, it succeeds.

| Apr 11, 2024

Genial, slapdash, high-spirited and occasionally moving.

| Apr 11, 2024

Not the least of Bingo Long’s assets is the splendid photography by Bill Butler who did the lens-work on Jaws There is a sort of sepia quality in his color shots here, conveying an old-timey atmosphere that magically takes us back to 1939.

| Apr 11, 2024

Director Badham and scriptwriters Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins get their message across ably enough, and offer some fine entertainment as a bonus.

| Apr 11, 2024

I would be very surprised to learn that the people involved did not have an old-fashioned hoot of a time making The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings.

| Apr 11, 2024

In a plot riddled with cliches, the story grinds on interminably and predictably.

| Apr 11, 2024

Williams is delightful as the brash cheerful pitcher and Jones is a perfect foil as the idealistic catcher, an ardent disciple of William E.B. Du Bois and a devout adherent of honesty and fair play.

| Apr 11, 2024

For much of the time, The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings is good-natured and entertaining enough, but it really isn't worthy of its subject or its leading players.

| Apr 11, 2024

A freewheeling comedy that wears its sophistication lightly... The laughter has a sharp edge.

| Apr 11, 2024

It is pretty tame stuff. And, as the year's second baseball comedy, it's a no-hitter compared to The Bad News Bears.

| Apr 11, 2024