There Was a Crooked Man (film)
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Language English | 7/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Duration Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1960 Cast Similar movies Norman Wisdom appears in There Was a Crooked Man and Follow a Star | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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There Was a Crooked Man is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Stuart Burge. It starred Norman Wisdom, Alfred Marks, Andrew Cruickshank, Reginald Beckwith, and Susannah York. It is based on the James Bridie play The Odd Legend of Schultz; and was one of two films Wisdom made independently to extend his range (the other being The Girl on the Boat), although according to the BFI Screenonline website, "the cinema public craved only the Gump". The film was on general release in 1960 on the Rank circuit (supported by the documentary Jungle Hell) to less than spectacular business before being withdrawn, allegedly after American objections to Wisdom masquerading as an arrogant US general requisitioning British land for the US Air Force. The subject of US forces on British soil was deemed too sensitive even for comic treatment.
Contents
- There was a crooked man jail break
- There was a crooked man original theatrical trailer
- Synopsis
- Cast
- Release and home media
- References
There was a crooked man original theatrical trailer
Synopsis
A naive explosives expert is tricked into working for a criminal gang. The title is taken from the poem "There Was a Crooked Man".
Cast
Release and home media
The film had been unavailable for many years. It had one television screening on ITV (TV channel)ITV on Boxing Day in 1965. It was shown publicly for the first time in over 40 years in Darwen, Lancashire, where it was filmed, in 2008.
The film was released on DVD on 8 May 2017.
References
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