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There Was a Crooked Man (film)

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Premise
Cast
Release and home media
External links
References

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| director = Stuart Burge
| producer = John Bryan
Albert Fennell
| writer = James Bridie (play)
Reuben Ship (script)
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| starring = Norman Wisdom
Alfred Marks
Andrew Cruickshank
| music = Kenneth V. Jones
| cinematography = Arthur Ibbetson
| editing = Peter R. Hunt
| studio = Knightsbridge Films
| distributor = United Artists Corporation
| released = 1960
| runtime = 107 minutes
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There Was a Crooked Man is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Stuart Burge and starring Norman Wisdom, Alfred Marks, Andrew Cruickshank, Reginald Beckwith, and Susannah York.^[1] 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".^[2] 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in 1960 on the Rank circuit (supported by the documentary Jungle Hell) to less than spectacular business before being withdrawn, allegedly after American objections to Wisdom masquerading as an arrogant US general requisitioning British land for the US Air Force.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.

Premise

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

Norman Wisdom as Davy Cooper
Alfred Marks as Adolf Carter
Andrew Cruickshank as McKillup
Reginald Beckwith as Station Master
Susannah York as Ellen
Jean Clarke as Freda
Timothy Bateson as Flash Dan
Paul Whitsun-Jones as Restaurant Gentleman
Fred Griffiths as Taxi Driver
Ann Hefferman as Hospital Sister
Rosalind Knight as Nurse
Reed De Rouen as Dutchman
Brian Oulton as Ashton
Glyn Houston as Smoking Machinist
Percy Herbert as Prison Warden
Edna Petrie as Woman at Assembly Hall
Jack May as Police Sergeant
Ronald Fraser as General Cummins
Ed Devereaux as American Colonel
Sam Kydd as Foreman
Redmond Phillips as Padre

Release and home media

The film had been unavailable for many years. It had one television screening on 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.^[3]

The film was released on DVD on 8 May 2017.^[4]

External links

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References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6b811127 |title=There Was a Crooked Man (1960) | BFI |publisher=Explore.bfi.org.uk |date= |accessdate=2014-06-10}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/450916/ |title=BFI Screenonline: Wisdom, Norman (1915-2010) Biography |publisher=Screenonline.org.uk |date= |accessdate=2014-06-10}}
3. ^'Lost' Norman Wisdom film to be shown again Lancashire Telegraph, 20 January 2008. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
4. ^http://networkonair.com/shop/2610-there-was-a-crooked-man.html

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