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2 hours, 6 minutes
Country USA
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• There Was a Crooked Man...
• Zwei dreckige Halunken (1970)
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Genre: Western, Comedy
Plot: Following the tradition of 1960s and '70s Westerns in which the criminals are the heroes, THERE WAS A CROOKED MAN takes devilish pride in the antics of armed robber and murderer Paris Pitman, Jr. (Kirk Douglas), as he stages a prison break with fellow lawless bumblers from a jail run by a warden (Henry Fonda) who’d rather reform than punish, forsaking hard labor for building and learning. Fonda conveys integrity with just his eyes, reinforcing his reputation as a Western icon, while Douglas’s twinkle and grin invites the viewer to laugh along with him as he dupes both his cronies and the warden. After the breakout, Fonda pledges to bring Douglas back dead or alive in this entertaining, surprising film from Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
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| Robert Benton
Bonnie and Clyde, The Ice Harvest, Kramer vs. Kramer |
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 | Henry Fonda
12 Angry Men, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Longest Day |
 | Hume Cronyn
The Pelican Brief, Shadow of a Doubt, Cocoon | Warren Oates
The Wild Bunch, Stripes, In the Heat of the Night | | | Lee Grant
Mulholland Dr., Dr T and the Women, In the Heat of the Night | |
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