There Was a Crooked Man
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Stuart Burge
Norman Wisdom
Alfred Marks
Andrew Cruickshank
Reginald Beckwith
Susannah York
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Synopsis
Demolitions expert Davy Cooper is hired by master crook Adolf Carter to blow open a safe in a bank robbery. Carter's gang gains entry to the bank by disguising themselves as doctors and tunneling in from the hospital next door, but police raid the premises, and Davy is sent to prison for five years. Upon his release Davy vows to reform, and he is employed in a seaside factory owned by McKillup, a swindler who has cheated most of his neighbors by selling them shares in the town and falsely promising future profits. Davy recruits his old gang into posing as American army officers intent on building a rocket base in the area; McKillup buys back the land from the investors and is ruined financially when the gang blows up the town. The United States government begrudgingly promises to repair the destruction, and Davy returns to jail.
Director
Stuart Burge
Cast
Norman Wisdom
Alfred Marks
Andrew Cruickshank
Reginald Beckwith
Susannah York
Jean Clarke
Timothy Bateson
Paul Whitsun-jones
Fred Griffiths
Ann Heffernan
Rosalind Knight
Reed De Rouen
Brian Oulton
Percy Herbert
Edna Petrie
Jack May
Ronald Fraser
Ed Devereaux
Sam Kydd
Redmond Phillips
Fred Haggerty
Eddie Boyce
Totti Truman-taylor
William Hutt
John Barrard
John Kidd
Crew
Jack Atchelor
Charles Bishop
Dick Bonnor-moris
Colin Brewer
John Bryan
Ron Butcher
Patrick Clayton
Tony Cripps
John Danischewsky
Bert Davey
Rita Davison
Albert Fennell
Harry Frampton
John Glen
Charles Guerin
Harry Hannay
Peter Hunt
Arthur Ibbetson
Kenneth V. Jones
Michael Knight
Patrick Marsden
John Morgan
Roger Ramsdell
Ted Reed
Barbara Ritchie
Reuben Ship
Allan Sones
Laurel Staffell
Ann Talbot
Ron Udell
Norman Wanstall
Maureen Whitty
Leo Wilkins
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Released in London in August 1960.
