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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391112075
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0EnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: D111207D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Running Time: 123 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1970
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pittman is a schemer a charmer and quite popular among his fellow convicts - especially with $500000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New Warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pittman. Each man will have the tables turned on him. Academy Award winner* Joseph L. Mankiewicz cleverly lassoes a twisting turning Wild West tale of brawls chases shootouts and wry wit courtesy of a script by David Newman and Robert Benton (Bonnie and Clyde). Kirk Douglas as Pittman and Henry Fonda as Lopeman headline a sterling cast with Hume Cronyn Burgess Meredith Warren Oates and Lee Grant among the solid support. Boisterous yet blistering lighthearted yet lacerating There Was a Crooked Man is throughout all its moods delivishly entertaining.Running Time: 123 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 085391112075 Manufacturer No: 111207
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Shelved for more than a year and released as an un-holiday-like afterthought at Christmas 1970, this sardonic comedy-cum-Western-cum-prison movie immediately dropped off the radar and has scarcely been heard of since. We can understand that. By their own admission, hotshot screenwriters David Newman and Robert Benton (just off Bonnie and Clyde) and veteran director Joe Mankiewicz (more typically associated with the likes of All About Eve) never found the right focus for their mix of sociopolitical satire, frontier bawdiness, and brutal Western action. Still, the very unevenness makes for fascinating tensions, and the myriad insights and moods created by a cast comprising Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn, John Randolph, Warren Oates, and Burgess Meredith more than repay a visit.
Douglas plays one of those charming bastards at which he excelled--here, Paris Pittman Jr., a bandit capable of seducing virtually anyone into doing his will. Pittman has a fortune in gold stashed somewhere. Inconveniently, he himself has been stashed in the territorial penitentiary in the middle of the desert, so he begins conniving to escape. This means betraying everyone in range, including the liberal-minded warden (Fonda) who's determined to redeem him. The stellar adversaries are ideally cast, with Fonda cannily subverting his own image (as he recently had in Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West). Cronyn and Randolph are priceless as "an old married couple," and Oates is heartbreaking as a congenital loner who thinks that, in Paris Pittman, he has at last found a friend. --Richard T. Jameson
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Rating:  -
A noble experiment, this film was certainly interesting and its goals broad -- social commentary, prison reform, morality, corruption, wry comedy, you name it, all packed into a film laden with great performances by top-notch character actors, not to mention the leads Kirk Douglas and Henry Fonda.
As much as I wanted to like this movie, and I did, I found the end somewhat disappointing. From what I have read, much of Henry Fonda's plot development toward the end was left on the cutting ... Read More
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On one of the discussion boards was a question about the pretty schoolteacher being carried along with the rioting mob, losing another piece of attire every time seen (yelling "warden," asking for help) for part of the riot sequence and then disappearing. And mention of seeing a still picture where she wore a hat, boots and a smile while running through the desert. Question was about the editing.
An acquaintance saw the sneak preview of the picture in Long Beach while it was still being edited ... Read More
Rating:  -
***** 1970. Produced and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. How to transform the screenplay of a western dealing with a daring prison escape into a smart and satiric film about honesty and prison reforms ? Well, just ask Mankiewicz, one of the top directors of the Golden Age of Hollywood. The quality of this WB release is average with a good sound and so so images. Too bad that the featurette is mainly about Michael Blodgett's first serious step into cinema. But, nevertheless, this release stays as an indispensable ... Read More
Rating:  -
Actually I thought that this was a different movie before I viewed it.
I confused this one with the movie 'Scalawag' also starring Kirk Douglas.
It's an ok movie. so if your a Kirk Douglas or Henry Fonda fan it's worth you while.
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Kirk Douglas and Henry Fonda are two of the Western genre's alltime greats, and seeing them together in a movie like this is always fascinating. Perhaps even more so in a early 70's Western with all of its characteristics, including rampant cynicism, blatant anti-heroism, and surprise endings.
There Was A Crooked Man features Douglas as a bank robber who has hidden his loot away, and then gets caught and sent to prison. In prison, he and the warden form a grudging respect for each other. The warden, played ... Read More
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