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Sail a Crooked Ship is a 1961 American black-and-white comedy heist film starring Robert Wagner, Dolores Hart, Carolyn Jones, Frankie Avalon, Ernie Kovacs and Frank Gorshin. It was directed by Irving Brecher and was based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Nathaniel Benchley. Sail a Crooked Ship was Kovacs' last movie, released shortly before he was killed in a car crash. Hart's other 1961 ...
Director. Nathaniel Benchley. Writer. Ruth Brooks Flippen. Writer. Bruce Geller. Writer. A bungling burglar, determined to go down in the annals of crime as a genius, steals a ship in New York in order to rob a bank in Boston.
Film Movie Reviews Sail a Crooked Ship — 1961. Sail a Crooked Ship. 1961. 1h 28m. Approved. Comedy. Advertisement. Cast. Robert Wagner (Gilbert Barrows) Dolores Hart (Elinor Harrison) Carolyn ...
Critics reviews. A bungling burglar steals a ship in New York in order to rob a bank in Boston. He steals a Liberty ship, assembles a nitwit band of people and sets sail on his crazy cruise for crime. To sail the ship they call an ex-Navy officer who manages to bring them through a hurricane, a fire and a mutiny.
Foolish robbers steal and board a ship they can't sail. TCM Main Navigation ... Sail a Crooked Ship. 1h 28m 1962. Overview; Synopsis; ... Film Details. Genre. Comedy.
Sail A Crooked Ship was the last film for both Ernie Kovacs and Sid Tomack, both would leave us all too soon shortly after this film was finished. Especially Kovacs, his comic genius influenced a whole generation of comedians, the long running Laugh-in Show of Rowan and Martin should have been dedicated to him.
Jan 24, 2014 · Dire sea-faring sex comedy caper; an ignominious end to Kovacs' already lackluster movie career. Sony Pictures' Choice Collection of hard-to-find cult and library titles has released Sail a Crooked Ship, the 1961 so-called "comedy" from Columbia Pictures starring Robert Wagner, Dolores Hart, Carolyn Jones, Frankie Avalon, Ernie Kovacs, Frank Gorshin, Jesse White, and Harvey Lembeck.
