There Was a Crooked Man...
Sep 18, 1970 | IMDB 6.8
123 min Watch NowWestern
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.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Wild Bunch
Rio Bravo
Once Upon a Time in the West
Duck, You Sucker
A Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
The Magnificent Seven
The Searchers
Hang 'em High
Will Penny
Thunder at the Border
Young Guns II
Blazing Saddles
Two Mules for Sister Sara
The Missing
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Ace High
Silverado
Support Your Local Sheriff!
Oklahoma!
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IMDB 8.3 | Dec , 1968
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IMDB 7.7 | Oct , 1971
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IMDB 6.8 | Apr , 1968
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IMDB 6.3 | Nov , 2003
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IMDB 6.5 | Oct , 1968
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IMDB 7 | Jul , 1985
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