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There Was a Crooked Man is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Stuart Burge with Alfred Marks

There Was a Crooked Man (1960)

There Was a Crooked Man
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Length 1h47
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Genres Comedy
Rating65% 3.286663.286663.286663.286663.28666

There Was a Crooked Man is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Stuart Burge. It starred Norman Wisdom, Alfred Marks, Andrew Cruickshank, Reginald Beckwith, and Susannah York. 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, though (according to the BFI Screenonline), "the cinema public craved only the Gump". The film was generally released in 1960 on the Rank circuit (supported by the documentary 'Jungle Hell') to less than spectacular business before being withdrawn, allegedly by US interference who were offended by Norman masquerading as an arrogant US general requisitioning British land for the US Air Force.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.

This is the only Norman Wisdom film that has not had a video or DVD release. It had one TV showing 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.

Synopsis

A naive explosives expert is tricked into working for a criminal gang. The title is taken from the poem There Was a Crooked Man.

Actors

Alfred Marks

(Adolf Carter)Norman Wisdom

(Davy Cooper)Andrew Cruickshank

(McKillup)Reginald Beckwith

(Station Master)Susannah York

(Ellen)
And :
Timothy Bateson
Paul Whitsun-Jones
Fred Griffiths
Brian Oulton
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