There Was a Crooked Man... is a 1970 American western film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Kirk Douglas and Henry Fonda.
Plot[]
After a botched heist, Wild West bandit Paris Pitman Jr. (Kirk Douglas) hides his newly stolen money where no one will find it, then loses his entire gang in a blaze of bullets before being captured by the law and given a lengthy sentence in a desert jail. Paris believes that he can buy his way out of his predicament by offering some cash to the guards, but the upstanding Sheriff Lopeman (Henry Fonda) makes sure his men remain honest. Running out of options, Paris begins plotting a jailbreak.
Cast[]
- Kirk Douglas as Paris Pitman Jr.
- Henry Fonda as Sheriff Woodward W. Lopeman
- Hume Cronyn as Dudley Whinner
- Warren Oates as Floyd Moon
- Burgess Meredith as The Missouri Kid
- John Randolph as Cyrus McNutt
- Lee Grant as Mrs. Bullard
- Arthur O'Connell as Mr. Lomax
- Martin Gabel as Warden Francis E. LeGoff
- Michael Blodgett as Coy Cavendish
- C.K. Yang as Ah-Ping
- Alan Hale Jr. as Tobaccy
- Victor French as Whiskey
- Claudia McNeil as Madam
- Bert Freed as Skinner
- Jeanne Cooper as Prostitute
- Barbara Rhoades as Miss Jessie Brundidge, the Schoolteacher
- Gene Evans as Colonel Wolff
- Pamela Hensley as Edwina
- J. Edward McKinley as The Governor
- Ann Doran as Mrs. Lomax