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There Was a Crooked Man... is a 1970 American Western film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Kirk Douglas and Henry Fonda. It was the only western made by Mankiewicz. It was written by David Newman and Robert Benton, their first script after Bonnie and Clyde.
Sep 19, 1970 · A comedy western film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda and Hume Cronyn. A charming but totally ruthless criminal tries to escape from a remote Arizona prison with the help of his cellmates and his hidden loot.
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- Comedy, Western
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- 1970-09-19
After a botched heist, Wild West bandit Paris Pitman Jr. (Kirk Douglas) hides his newly stolen money where no one will find it, then loses his entire gang in a blaze of bullets before being ...
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- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- R
- Kirk Douglas
In this dark Western with an all-star cast, the supposedly incorruptible warden of an Arizona penitentiary proves as corruptible as any other man when presented with a control of an inmate's ...
Isolated from their Hollywood comfort zone at the distance of just over a hundred miles, the cast and crew of There Was a Crooked Man... blew off steam as best they could, with one crew member growing a marijuana garden on the balcony of his motel lodgings (the police raid netted Oates and his visiting bride-to-be Vickery Turner, though both ...
Boisterous yet blistering, lighthearted yet lacerating directed Academy Award winner* Joseph Mankiewiczby. There was a Crooked Man throughout all its moods, delivishly entertaining. 292 IMDb 6.9 2 h 3 min 1970. R. Drama · Western · Biting · Malicious. Available to rent or buy. Rent. HD $4.29. Buy.