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In 1883, [1] Paris Pitman, Jr. and his crew enter the home of wealthy rancher Mr. Lomax, and rob him of $500,000 Lomax keeps in a safe disguised as a table. Watching the ensuing shootout between the crew and the Lomax family, Pitman kills a number of his own men, then flees.
The film was one of two independent films (the other being The Girl on the Boat (1962)) in which Wisdom appeared in an effort to extend his range, as British audiences strongly identified him with his Gump character. [3] The film's title is taken from the English nursery rhyme "There Was a Crooked Man".
The crooked man is reputed to be the Scottish General Sir Alexander Leslie, who signed a covenant securing religious and political freedom for Scotland. The "crooked stile" in the poem was the alliance between the parliaments of England and Scotland or the border between the two, depending on the source. "They all lived together in a little ...
There Was a Crooked Man" is a nursery rhyme. There Was a Crooked Man may also refer to: "There Was A Crooked Man", a 1950 episode of Westinghouse Studio One; There Was a Crooked Man, featuring Norman Wisdom; There Was a Crooked Man... a western film starring Kirk Douglas and Henry Fonda; There was a Crooked Man: the Poems of Lex Banning, a 1984 ...
The original English nursery rhymes that correspond to the numbered poems in Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames are as follows: [3] Humpty Dumpty; Old King Cole; Hey Diddle Diddle; Old Mother Hubbard; There Was a Little Man and He Had a Little Gun; Hickory Dickory Dock; Jack Sprat; Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater; There Was a Crooked Man; Little Miss ...
The Crooked Man, an episode of the animated show Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century "The Crooked Man", an episode of the television series The Adventures of Ellery Queen; Hellboy: The Crooked Man, starring Martin Bassindale as Jeremiah Witkins / "The Crooked Man" There Was a Crooked Man..., a 1970 western film with Kirk Douglas and Henry Fonda
Gunard Hjertstedt (March 28, 1904 - January 9, 1969), better known by pen name Day Keene, was an American novelist, short story writer and radio and television scriptwriter.
Rhoades appeared in a number of films during the 1970s, including There Was a Crooked Man... (1970), opposite Kirk Douglas and Henry Fonda , and Up the Sandbox (1972) starring Barbra Streisand . She played a police officer, "No Balls" Hadley, in 1977's The Choirboys and a Las Vegas hooker who picks up Art Carney along the road during his Oscar ...