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Running time. 83 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. Drive a Crooked Road is a 1954 American crime film noir directed by Richard Quine and starring Mickey Rooney and Dianne Foster. [1] The drama's screenplay was adapted by Blake Edwards and Richard Quine from "The Wheel Man", a story by Canadian James Benson Nablo.
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- Columbia Pictures
Drive a Crooked Road: Directed by Richard Quine. With Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Kelly. An upright car mechanic falls in love with the girlfriend of a gangster.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Richard Quine
- 1954-03-10
Rent Drive a Crooked Road on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. Eddie Shannon (Mickey Rooney) is a guileless Los Angeles auto mechanic with dreams of one ...
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- Richard Quine
- Crime, Drama
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Drive a Crooked Road (1954), a modest but tautly directed film noir from this middle period is one that Rooney actually liked too. In his autobiography, Life Is Too Short, he wrote, "In 1954, I did the third picture in my three-picture Columbia deal, Drive a Crooked Road. Blake Edwards wrote a terrific script, about a garage mechanic (me) who ...
- Richard Quine, Jack Corrick
- Mickey Rooney
Eddie Shannon is an undersized, sports-car mechanic who dreams of racing an expensive car in a European meet. He meets and falls in love with Barbara Mathews, and thinks she loves him. She introduces him to Steve Norris and Harold Baker, who ask him to drive the getaway car in a bank robbery they are planning.
A mechanic gets caught up with the mob when he falls for a gangster's girlfriend. Richard Quine. Director, Writer. Blake Edwards. Screenplay. James Benson Nablo. Story. A mechanic gets caught up with the mob when he falls for a gangster's girlfriend.
