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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 · There Was a Crooked Man...: Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn, Warren Oates. A charming but totally ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison. He enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.
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- Comedy, Western
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- 1970-09-19
There Was a Crooked Man... (1970) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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
The film's stellar cast notwithstanding, perhaps the biggest attraction of There Was a Crooked Man... was the film's desert prison set. Specially constructed by production designer Edward Carrere to withstand both the propeller wash of the helicopters used for aerial footage and the occasional sandstorms (such as the ones that destroyed two ...
Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pitman. Each man will have the tables turned on him.
- 123 min
Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it.
