Word: crookedness
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In professional baseball and college football, the ritual is called "Oldtimers' Day." In the movies, it is called There Was a Crooked Man. The combined age of the participants is Methuselahistic, and the plot is not much younger. For his game, Director Joseph Mankiewicz chose such veterans as Arthur...
Crooked Nail. The single telltale nail was preserved by an odd quirk. Because of a tough knot in the olive wood of the cross, the nail was slightly bent to the side as it was hammered into place. Later, after the young man had been given the traditional coup de...
The film's failure is most tragic when viewed in today's film context. Taking advantage of student disaffection with the working-class, some New York City ex-ad-men fashioned Joe to play right into the fantasies of the more naive paranoids-and found themselves with the '70's...
There Was a Crooked Man...
It's been a long time since Joseph Mankiewicz made his last movie, an updating of Volpone called The Honey Pot, in 1967, but this new western finds this American director in the same cynical place he was when he left off. Crooked Man is about a bunch of convicts...