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Three Crooked Men - Wikipedia

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Three Crooked Men

Directed by	Ernest Morris
Written by	Brian Clemens Eldon Howard
Produced by	Edward J. Danziger Harry Lee Danziger
Starring	Gordon Jackson
Cinematography	James Wilson (as Jimmy Wilson)
Edited by	Maurice Rootes
Music by	Edwin Astley Albert Elms
Production company	Danziger Productions
Distributed by	Paramount British Pictures (UK)
Release date	October 1958 (1958-10) (UK)
Running time	71 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

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.

Plot

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 and 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.

Cast

Gordon Jackson as Don Wescot
Sarah Lawson as May Wescot
Eric Pohlmann as Masters
Philip Saville as Seppy
Warren Mitchell as Walter Prinn
Michael Goodliffe as shop customer
Michael Mellinger as Vince
Kenneth Edwards as Inspector Wheeler
Frank Sieman as Constable Jason
Peter Bathurst as Mr Bond
Arnold Bell as Mr Brady, the bank manager
Michael Allinson as photographer's assistant
Len Sharp as Joe, proprietor of café

Critical reception

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]

In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "average", writing: "Mixture of suspense-drama and character studies; not too bad."^[5]

References

^ Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 93. ISBN 978-1-8445-7319-6.
^ "Three Crooked Men". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
^ "Three Crooked Men". BFI. Archived from the original on 13 July 2012.
^ "Three Crooked Men". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 25 (288): 145. 1 January 1958 – via ProQuest.
^ Quinlan, David (1984). British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. p. 387. ISBN 0-7134-1874-5.

External links

Three Crooked Men at IMDb
Three Crooked Men at BritMovie (archived)

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So Young, So Bad (1950)
St. Benny the Dip (1951)
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Satellite in the Sky (1956)
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The Betrayal (1957)
The Depraved (1957)
Operation Murder (1957)
Son of a Stranger (1957)
Three Sundays to Live (1957)
High Jump (1958)
Innocent Meeting (1958)
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