There Was a Crooked Man…

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There Was a Crooked Man…

film by Mankiewicz [1970]

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Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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There Was a Crooked Man… (1970) was a western in which Kirk Douglas played a robber who is caught and sent to prison, where his efforts to escape are thwarted by a reform-minded warden (Henry Fonda). Also in 1970 Mankiewicz codirected (with Sidney Lumet) the…
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There Was a Crooked Man… (1970) was a western in which Kirk Douglas played a robber who is caught and sent to prison, where his efforts to escape are thwarted by a reform-minded warden (Henry Fonda). Also in 1970 Mankiewicz codirected (with Sidney Lumet) the…
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Kirk Douglas
…career include The Brotherhood (1968), There Was a Crooked Man (1970), The Fury (1978), The Man from Snowy River (1982), and Tough Guys (1986), Douglas’s seventh and last film with his close friend Burt Lancaster. Douglas also directed two films, the ill-conceived pirate comedy Scalawag (1973), and the cynical western
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…career include The Brotherhood (1968), There Was a Crooked Man (1970), The Fury (1978), The Man from Snowy River (1982), and Tough Guys (1986), Douglas’s seventh and last film with his close friend Burt Lancaster. Douglas also directed two films, the ill-conceived pirate comedy Scalawag (1973), and the cynical western
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