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1958 British film by Ernest Morris From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Three Crooked Men is a 1958 British 'B'[1] crime film directed by Ernest Morris and starring Gordon Jackson.[2][3] It was written by Brian Clemens and Eldon Howard.
Three Crooked Men | |
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Directed by | Ernest Morris |
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Produced by | |
Starring | Gordon Jackson |
Cinematography | James Wilson (as Jimmy Wilson) |
Edited by | Maurice Rootes |
Music by | |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Paramount British Pictures (UK) |
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Running time | 71 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Three crooks break into a store hoping to gain access to the bank next door. The store keeper has remained in the rear of the store after a drunken fight with his wife, the men take him hostage. A passerby, a bank employee, hears him shout knocks on the front door, tries to help, but he too is captured. The two kidnapped men are dumped in the country eventually getting free and are recognized/arrested as the "wanted men" in news reports. Under questioning the police don't want to believe them as the missing shop owner and missing bank employee seem to have committed the crime. While awaiting court the two men return to the store come across a photo which had been dropped during the break-in and decide their best chance is to track down the thieves themselves.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This film falls between two stools: it builds up some suspense as a crime melodrama; it is occasionally interesting as a character study of two men, Wescot and Prinn, who imagine themselves to be failures, but, as a result of the events in the story, recover their sense of purpose. But the two halves are awkwardly joined, and despite good performances from Gordon Jackson and Warren Mitchell, the long arm of coincidences is sometimes violently wrenched."[4]
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