Drive a Crooked Road
6.8 /10 1 Votes
Prequel All Ashore Country United States | 6.7/10 IMDb Genre Crime, Drama, Film-Noir Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date March 10, 1954 (1954-03-10) (United States) Writer Blake Edwards (screen play), Richard Quine (adaptation), James Benson Nablo (from a story by) Genres Film noir, Thriller, Crime Fiction, Black-and-white Cast (Eddie Shannon), (Barbara Mathews), (Steve Norris), (Harold Baker), (Ralph), (Phil) Similar movies Back to the Future , Back to the Future Part III , Back to the Future Part II , The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift , The Fast and the Furious , Cars Tagline Why would a dame like her go for a guy like me? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Drive a Crooked Road is a 1954 American crime film noir directed by Richard Quine and featuring Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy, and Jack Kelly. The drama's screenplay was written by Blake Edwards and Richard Quine from The Wheel Man; a story by Canadian James Benson Nablo.
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Plot
A mechanic and race car driver (Rooney) is chosen by two bank robbers to help them with a heist. The heist requires a driver with considerable driving skills to complete the task. To bait the driver into the dangerous scheme, one of the robbers uses his girlfriend (Foster) to help persuade the honest young man to assist with the crime.
Cast
Critical reception
TV Guide called the film "A crisply done film noir with Rooney taken in by the universal emotional state that was at the root of many noir heroes' problems, loneliness."
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