There Was a Crooked Man...

“Of All the Crooked Men in All the Crooked West One of Them Was the Best!”

6.8

1970

2h 3m

Western

Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pitman. Each man will have the tables turned on him.

Key Crew

Director

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Producers

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Writers

Robert Benton

David Newman

Lee Adams

Cinematography

Harry Stradling Jr.

Music

Charles Strouse

Cast (81)

Kirk Douglas

Paris Pitman, Jr.

Henry Fonda

Woodward W. Lopeman

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