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Of All the Crooked Men in All the Crooked West One of Them Was the Best! - There Was a Crooked Man...
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Title: There Was a Crooked Man...

Release Date: 18 Sep 1970

Runtime: 2h 3m

Genre: Western

Director: Warner Bros. Pictures

Production Companies: Warner Bros. Pictures

Overview: 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.

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Average Vote: 6.816 (122 votes)

Cast

  • Paris Pitman, Jr.: Kirk Douglas
  • Woodward W. Lopeman: Henry Fonda
  • Dudley Whinner: Hume Cronyn
  • Floyd Moon: Warren Oates
  • The Missouri Kid: Burgess Meredith
  • Cyrus McNutt: John Randolph
  • Mrs. Bullard: Lee Grant
  • Mr. Lomax: Arthur O'Connell
  • Warden LeGoff: Martin Gabel
  • Coy Cavendish: Michael Blodgett
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