There Was a Crooked Man...

There Was a Crooked Man...

1970 · 123 min · EN · R · 6.8 (105 votes)
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · Starring Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn, Warren Oates, Burgess Meredith, John Randolph · Music Charles Strouse

Of All the Crooked Men in All the Crooked West One of Them Was the Best!

Western

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.

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A sun-baked Western showdown where cunning minds clash. Expect sharp dialogue and a slow-burn battle of wits between a charismatic inmate and a determined warden. It's a gritty, cynical game of cat and mouse where fortunes and freedom are on the line.

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