Three Crooked Men

Three Crooked Men
Three Crooked Men
Directed by	Ernest Morris
Written by	Brian Clemens; Eldon Howard;
Produced by	Edward J. Danziger; Harry Lee Danziger;
Starring	Gordon Jackson
Cinematography	James Wilson (as Jimmy Wilson)
Edited by	Maurice Rootes
Music by	Edwin Astley; Albert Elms;
Production; company	Danziger Productions
Distributed by	Paramount British Pictures (UK)
Release date	October 1958 (UK)
Running time	71 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Three Crooked Men is a 1958 British crime film directed by Ernest Morris and starring Gordon Jackson.^[1]^[2]

Plot[]

Three crooks break into a store hoping to gain access to the bank next door. The store keeper has remained in the rear of the store after a drunken fight with his wife, the men take him hostage. A passerby, a bank employee, hears him shout knocks on the front door, tries to help, but he too is captured. The two kidnapped men are dumped in the country eventually getting free and are recognized/arrested as the "wanted men" in news reports. Under questioning the police don't want to believe them as the missing shop owner and missing bank employee seem to have committed the crime. While awaiting court the two men return to the store come across a photo which had been dropped during the break-in and decide their best chance is to track down the thieves themselves.

Cast[]

Gordon Jackson as Don Wescot
Sarah Lawson as May Wescot
Eric Pohlmann as Masters
Philip Saville as Seppy
Warren Mitchell as Walter Prinn
Michael Goodliffe as Shop Customer
Michael Mellinger as Vince
Kenneth Edwards as Inspector Wheeler
Frank Sieman as Constable Jason
Peter Bathurst as Mr Bond
Arnold Bell as Mr Brady, the Bank Manager
Michael Allinson as Photographer's Assistant
Len Sharp as Joe, Proprietor of Café

References[]

^ Three Crooked Men at Films de France
^ "Three Crooked Men". BFI. Archived from the original on 13 July 2012.

External links[]

Three Crooked Men at IMDb
Three Crooked Men at BritMovie (archived)

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[1] Three Crooked Men at Films de France

[2] "Three Crooked Men". BFI. Archived from the original on 13 July 2012.

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