

There Was a Crooked Man...
Of All the Crooked Men in All the Crooked West One of Them Was the Best!
A charming but ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison, where he enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.
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- Released
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- Language
- Spanish
- prison
- prison escape
- criminal
- warden
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalR25 Dec 1970
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical151 Oct 1970
FranceFR
- Theatrical18 Sept 1970
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1819 Nov 1970
ItalyIT
- Theatrical23 Oct 1970
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There Was a Crooked Man... was released on 18 September 1970.
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1- J7/10
John Chard
1/13/2019
Don't tell me you can't make speeches; you could talk a coyote out of a chicken. There Was a Crooked Man... is directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and written by David Newman and Robert Benton. It stars Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn, Warren Oates, Burgess Meredith, John Randolph and Michael Blodgett. Music is by Charles Strouse and cinematography by Harry Stradling Jr. Plot has Douglas as Paris Pitman Jr.…
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