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There Was a Crooked Man Free FREE THERE WAS A CROOKED MAN PDF Russell Punter,David Semple | 32 pages | 30 Oct 2009 | Usborne Publishing Ltd | 9781409506539 | English | London, United Kingdom There Was a Crooked Man () - IMDb As IMDb celebrates its 30th birthday, we have six shows to get you ready for those pivotal years of your life Get some streaming picks. Title: There Was a Crooked Man Charm, intelligence and success in criminal career doesn't prevent Paris Pitman Jr. New idealistic warden would only make Pitman think of getting his fortune even sooner. He starts to manipulate everyone to achieve his goal. A charming but totally roguish and ruthless criminal called Paris Pitman Jr. Kirk Douglas is detained for robbing and condemned for a long time in a remoteimpregnable territorial prison. There Pitman to start doing ten years in an isolated jail but being supported by a motley group of inmates Burguess MeredithWarren OatesJohn RandolphHume Cronyn. But then There Was a Crooked Man, an innovative and incorruptible warden chief Henry Fonda takes over the Arizona town's prison and he has some new ideas about law and order. Scurrilous Pitman enlists the help of his cellmates in There Was a Crooked Man escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot. At the end one of them lived happily ever after. Offbeat Western black comedy displays an excellent plethora of actorsas main as secondary cast and with fine acting all around. This is a richly amusing taleincluding hilarious touchestongue-in-cheektwists and turns. Interesting and fun script written by two prestigious screenwriters : David Newman and Robert Benton. Overlong Western ; however, Warners objected Mankiewicz's preferred version of the film it ran to minutes and re-cut the filmto his great irritationto a more manageable minutes. One notable casualty of this re-cutting was the prominently-billed Lee Granta very well-known actress at the time, whose appearance is now barely a couple of minutes in length. Enjoyable performance by Kirk Douglas as a charmingintelligent and successful criminal who eventually imprisoned is sent in the middle of the Arizona desert ; here Douglas steals the show playing one of the smiling rogues that he did so well. Henry Fonda is perfect as a new idealistic warden who starts to manipulate everyone to achieve his goalto take the stash. Douglas and Fonda dominate this western comedy as two immensely likable roguish men making plans to collect the buried loot. Impressive production designin fact a realistic s territorial prison replica was constructed on four acres in the high-desert country of the Joshua Tree National Monumentbeing designed by Edward CarrereOscar-winning designer of such movies as Wind Bunchit was one of the most There Was a Crooked Man location sets ever built. As the prison set took seven weeks to buildwhen construction beganit was snowingwhen it ended, the temperature was degrees. Furthermoreit contains a colorful cinematography in Panavision by Harry There Was a Crooked Man Jr. The motion picture was compellingly made by Joseph L. Mankiewiczit was promoted as a "cynical western"the film was released on Christmas Day and it did poorly at the holiday box office. Mankiewicz is considered to be one of the best directors of film history. Looking for some great streaming picks? Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep There Was a Crooked Man of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. There Was a Crooked Man Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. Rate This. There There Was a Crooked Man a Crooked Man A charming but totally ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison. He enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot. Director: Joseph L. Writers: David NewmanRobert Benton. Available on Amazon. Added to There Was a Crooked Man. Top: Westerns. Favorite westerns. Best Westerns. The Best of Release Year: 19xy and Rating: x,y. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Edit Cast Cast overview, There Was a Crooked Man billed only: Kirk Douglas Paris Pitman, Jr. Henry Fonda Woodward W. Lopeman Hume Cronyn Dudley Whinner Warren Oates Floyd Moon Burgess Meredith The Missouri Kid John Randolph Cyrus McNutt Lee Grant Bullard Arthur O'Connell Lomax Martin Gabel Warden LeGoff Michael Blodgett Coy Cavendish C. Ah-Ping Alan Hale Jr. Tobaccy as Alan Hale Victor French Whiskey Claudia McNeil Madam Bert Freed Taglines: Once upon a time, there was a crooked man. When he was good, he was very, very good. And when he was bad, it was murder Edit Did You Know? Goofs One of the escaping prisoners is shot from behind and falls on his stomach. Although there is an exit wound in his right abdomen, when he falls, there's apparently no entrance wound in his back that is visible. Quotes The Governor : This territory has laws for men to live by, and that's the real point of everything. When you haven't got laws, you've got lawlessness, and that leads to crime. Alternate Versions A scene was shot There Was a Crooked Man Miss Jessie Brundidge runs away from the prison completely naked, after There Was a Crooked Man had her clothes torn off piece by piece over the course of the prison riot. Although two images There Was a Crooked Man the shooting of this scene exist, proving that it was indeed shot, it was never a part of the final, finished film for U. Whether the scene was ever added to any of the international releases of the film, however, is unknown. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report this. Add the first question. Language: English Spanish. Production Co: Warner Bros. Runtime: min. Sound Mix: Mono. Color: Color. There Was a Crooked Man () - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb There Was a Crooked Man Mankiewicz and starring Kirk Douglas and Henry Fonda. It was the only western made by Mankiewicz. In[1] Paris Pitman, Jr. He is seen in a bordello and is captured, tried, convicted and sentenced to an Arizona penitentiary. A corrupt warden, LeGoff, is willing to cut the prisoner a deal. He will let Pitman break out of jail for an even split of There Was a Crooked Man half-million dollars. Pitman agrees, but the plan goes awry when LeGoff is murdered during an inmate uprising. Former sheriff Woodward Lopeman becomes the new warden. Although they There Was a Crooked Man enemies, he and Pitman work together to improve conditions at the prison. On a day the lieutenant governor visits, Pitman There Was a Crooked Man his move. He sparks a riot and manages to escape, but not before three inmates are killed, whereupon Pitman himself does away with two more partners. The money has been hidden in a nest of rattlesnakes. Pitman heads for it, with Lopeman in hot pursuit. The money is his again when Pitman is suddenly bitten by a rattlesnake. By the time Lopeman comes across him, Pitman is already dead. Lopeman collects the money, as well as Pitman's body, and rides back to the prison. However, upon his arrival, he abruptly decides to leave the body and gallop off, absconding to Mexico with the money. Mankiewicz who, in real life, is one of America's most sophisticated, least folksy raconteurs, especially of stories about the old Hollywood. It is the type of action drama in which neither the actors nor director appear to believe the script or characters, opt for the broadness euphemistically termed 'entertainment,' and which makes its best boxoffice in multiples exploiting the cast and elements. It plays in the end like an interminable and very private shaggy dog story, whose embellishments are intermittently interesting but whose punch line can't carry the wait of buildup. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see There Was a Crooked Man disambiguation. Release date. Running time. American Film Institute. Retrieved May 12, November 4, Chicago Tribune. Section 2, p. Los Angeles Times. Part IV, p. The Washington Post. The Monthly Film Bulletin. Rotten Tomatoes. Films directed by Joseph L. Categories : films English-language films s Western genre comedy films American films American Western genre films Films set in s prison films Films directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz Films scored by Charles Strouse comedy films. Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Template film date with 1 release date Film articles using image size parameter. Namespaces Article There Was a Crooked Man. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Movie poster. David Newman Robert Benton. Kirk Douglas Henry Fonda. There Was a Crooked Man - Wikipedia It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of The rhyme was first recorded in print by James Orchard Halliwell in [2]. It gained popularity in the early twentieth century. Other sources [5] state that the poem originates from British history, specifically the period of the Scottish Stuart King Charles I of England — The crooked man is reputed to be the Scottish General Sir Alexander Lesliewho signed a covenant securing religious and political freedom for Scotland. The "crooked stile " in the poem was the alliance between the parliaments of England and Scotland or the border between the two, depending on the source. The great recoinage around led to sixpence coins that were made of very thin silver and were easily bent, becoming "crooked".
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