There Was a Crooked Man (film)

There Was a Crooked Man is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Stuart Burge. It starred Norman Wisdom, Alfred Marks, Andrew Cruickshank, Reginald Beckwith, and Susannah York. It is based on the James Bridie play The Odd Legend of Schultz and was one of two films Wisdom made independently to extend his range, though according to the BFI Screenonline, the cinema public craved only the Gump. The film was generally released in 1960 on the Rank circuit supported by the documentary Jungle Hell to less than spectacular business before being withdrawn, allegedly by US interference who were offended by Norman masquerading as an arrogant US general requisitioning British land for the US Air Force. The subject of US forces on British soil was deemed too sensitive even for comic treatment.

A naive explosives expert is tricked into working for a criminal gang. The title is taken from the poem There Was a Crooked Man.

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