Follow us on social channels or subscribe to our feed to stay updated. Stay in the know with the latest movie news and cast interviews at. The crooked road 1964 an american journalist robert ryan endangers his life when he tries to incriminate a balkan dictator. Its hard to believe, but yeah, and to top that off, its kind of a racing picture too. Dvd compare is a participant in the amazon services llc associates program and the amazon europe s. Drive a crooked road new pal classic dvd richard quine mickey rooney d. They lure him in with one of the robbers beautiful girlfriends, and he. A hidden gem of film noir, richard quines film cowritten by blake edwards is a great suspenseful yarn that is grounded in its characters rather than any kind of mystery, the inverse of most noir pictures.
Directed by richard quine 1954 united states starring mickey rooney, kevin mccarthy, dianne foster. Drive a crooked road 1954 is a crime, drama movie starring mickey rooney and dianne foster. But he also worked closely with columbia director richard quine, whose film drive a crooked road starring mickey rooney he cowrote. The reason that eddie is so needed is that the road between the bank and the main highway past the point where any road blocks would be requires fast driving over what amounts to unpaved desert terrain. Jan 22, 2017 a double life 1947 ronald colman, edmond obrien, signe hasso. Drive a crooked road walk a crooked mile synopsis fandango. Guardare drive a crooked road streaming ita aymado. Dianne foster, jack kelly, harry landers, mickey rooney, kevin mccarthy, richard quine, dianne foster, jonie taps. You are my only love 1993 film completo in italian. Drive a crooked road is a 1954 american crime film noir directed by richard quine and starring mickey rooney and dianne foster.
Drive a crooked road sony choice collection drive a crooked road sony choice collection. Second on tonights bill is the 1954 film drive a crooked road starring mickey rooney and dianne foster. Drive a crooked road 1954 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Webmaster possono capire quadro e diario nel vostro arnese. The film stars edmund lowe, irene hervey, henry wilcoxon, paul fix, arthur loft and claire carleton. Several degrees greater, however, is 1954s drive a crooked road, where rooney is once again a mechanic, this time seduced by a gangsters sultry moll dianne foster into serving as the.
The nice woman played by dianne foster is used as bait to get mickey to drive the getaway car in a bank robbery. The film represented the last directorial assignment of robert florey, who retired shortly afterward. Western filmold western movieswestern artstreaming movieshd moviesmovies and tv showshd. The film was written by blake edwards and directed by richard quine, the same team responsible for such mickey rooney comic vehicles as all. With mickey rooney, dianne foster, kevin mccarthy, jack kelly. Heres a prime example of a hollywood bmelodrama, originally released here as the support to alec guinnesss father brown. Blake edwards scripted this extraordinary, if virtually unknown, 50s film noir, which casts a fullygrown mickey rooney against type as a lovelorn mechanic whose craving for fast cars and a faster woman the alluring dianne foster drives him to sign on as wheelman. In this volume, presented for the first time on dvd, the five restored and remastered films included in film noir classics iii represent key films in the genre by such.
Imagine a crime film directed by leo mccarey and youll get the idea behind this stunningly. Buchanan rides alone randolph scott movie poster ebay. It doesnt bear thinking about, and to do hillcoats film justice, it does think about it, although the greater emphasis is elsewhere. Drive a crooked road is a film noir written by blake edwards and directed by richard quine. The crooked road 1965 don chaffey, robert ryan, stewart. Drive a crooked road crime, drama, film noir with mickey rooney. The crooked road 1965 don chaffey, robert ryan, stewart granger, nadia gray august 11, 2018 an investigative reporter robert ryan travels to a small european country with the hope of exposing its dictators family secrets. Without ever justifying their actions, drive a crooked road manages to engender plenty of audience sympathy for the hapless hero and heroine. A short promotional film for the show the crooked road, a ramble through irish history in word, image and music, with poet, musician and gaelic scholar. Columbia pictures film noir classics ii human desire the brothers rico nightfall city of fear pushover glenn ford. Directed by richard quine, the film was coscripted by quine and blake edwards from a short story, the wheel man, by james benson nablo. Drive a crooked road 1954 official trailer, organic.
Dianne foster, harry landers, jack kelly, jerry paris, kevin mccarthy, mickey rooney, paul picerni, dick crockett. Drive a crooked road crime, drama, film noir with mickey rooney and dianne foster. Mickey rooney performs a dark and sad role that seems to be tailored for him. Mickey rooney, dianne foster, kevin mccarthy, jack kelly, harry landers, jerry paris, paul picerni, dick crockett, richard quine, drive a crooked road little giant speedy shannon, drive a crooked road, little giant, speedy shannon. Shaking off his countless prewar roles as an american innocent, babyfaced mickey rooney plays a lovelorn garage mechanic and amateur racing enthusiast who finds himself seduced by a gangsters moll into driving the getaway car after a palm. The film was written by blake edwards and directed by richard quine, the same team responsible for such mickey rooney comic vehicles as and. All of which is to say that as rooneys big hits dim in the distance, there is more room to evaluate some of his later work. The film opens with some classic sport car road racing scenes and during the course of the film the cars are as much the stars as the cast. Columbia pictures film noir classics iii boxed set.
Drive a crooked road movie information cinema clock. A biographical drama centered on the rivalry between formula 1 drivers james hunt and niki lauda during the 1976 formula one motorracing season. Then the thieves lower the boom on him they proposition him to drive their getaway car during a bank robbery in return for 15000 dollars. Drive a crooked road 1954 directed by richard quine. Approved 1h 23min crime, drama, filmnoir 10 march 1954 usa. Now if youre not into the whole brevity thing, please read on. Drive a crooked road is a 1954 american crime film noir directed by richard quine and starring mickey rooney and dianne foster eddie shannon is an undersized, sportscar mechanic who dreams of racing an expensive car in a european meet.
Drive a crooked road is a film very circumspect about sexuality, unusually so for its time, especially given that it is such an important part of the story. Drive a crooked road is a 1954 american crime film noir directed by richard quine and featuring mickey rooney, dianne foster, kevin mccarthy, and jack. Winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. And his work in noir particularly quicksand and the 1951 musical noir the strip are very good. So ive never had trouble placing him in these films and, actually, i think hes perfectly cast for the role in drive a crooked road, and seemed to have learned from his mistakes in his patchy performance in quicksand.
Eddie shannon is an undersized, sportscar mechanic who dreams of racing an expensive car in a european meet. Read the full synopsis of drive a crooked road, 1954, directed by richard quine, with mickey rooney, dianne foster, kevin mccarthy, at turner classic movies. Playwright joe penhall, who adapted it, relives the tensest screening of his life and the. There were 186 widescreen features produced in 1953 and 103 have been released on either dvd or bluray. Drive a crooked road would make a great double feature with quicksand 1950, another lowbudget film noir starring rooney once again as a mechanic who gets caught up in criminal endeavors. Drive a crooked road is a film directed by richard quine with mickey rooney, dianne foster, kevin mccarthy, jack kelly, year. After a brief lull, they finally returned with a third official box of classics, this one sold and. Kelly forces rooney at gunpoint to drive to a deserted location, but rooney crashes the car. Drive a crooked road s long, slow buildup is quite absorbing, with mickey rooney and dianne foster enacting a beautifully sick game of abject, terrifying aloneness and twisted, conflicted guilt. The dramas screenplay was written by blake edwards and richard quine from the wheel man, a story by canadian james benson nablo. Presented by the music box and the film noir foundation, this weeklong festival features 35millimeter prints of film noir classics and.
Blake edwards wrote a terrific script, about a garage mechanic me who. Ver pelicula drive a crooked road en espanol gratis 1954. As the regions story teller, blue ridge pbs presents on the crooked road to capture the flavor of what this unique trail offers our regions residents and visitors. Overview of drive a crooked road, 1954, directed by richard quine, with mickey rooney, dianne foster, kevin mccarthy, at turner classic movies. In this film noir, a melancholy mechanic and racecar driver is coerced into assisting two bank robbers pull a bank heist. Jan 07, 2010 kodi smitmcphee and viggo mortensen in the road. Find release information for drive a crooked road 1954 richard quine on allmovie. Associates programme, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to. It is this very discretion that is one measure of its brilliance, for it allows a reading of subtext almost entirely through staging, line readings, posture, and body language of the actors. A road movie is a film genre in which the main characters leave home on a road trip, typically altering the perspective from their everyday lives. Hes best known for his lighter work in the sixties, films like breakfast at tiffanys and the pink panther series, as well as for being mr.
Jan 04, 2010 cormac mccarthy won a pulitzer for his novel the road. Sony pictures home entertainment, the film foundation and turner classic movies partner on the third collection in the series, columbia pictures film noir classics iii on dvd. Drive a crooked road 1954 mickey rooney doing a film noir. Director richard quines first thriller he made the excellent pushover the same year, this tautly paced columbia action tale reminds us of what a talented film maker he was, and how underrated he is today.
Columbia pictures film noir classics iii dvd collection 5. Ive seen very little of his comedy or comedic performances and, of course, im a crime film fan. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing drive a crooked road walk a crooked mile near you. Brand new, official studioreleased dvd of this great film, imported from spain little giant speedy shannon this is a pal, region 0 dvd. Columbia pictures film noir classics iii mondo digital.
Drive a crooked road 1954 kevin mccarthy, mickey rooney scene. Drive a crooked road, 1954 with a nice subdued for once performance by mickey rooney as the patsy, and dianne foster at her loveliest as the femme fatale. The femme fatale dianne foster is the key element of the story, first seducing eddie and then triggering his. Everything on the brand new criterion channel streaming service. The film opens with some classic sport car road racing scenes and during the course of the film the cars are as much the stars as the. No extras ported over from the previous release of drive a crooked road. A mechanic gets caught up with the mob when he falls. He meets and falls in love with barbara mathews, and thinks she loves him. No extras ported over from drive a crooked road s 2012 film noir.
Dec 10, 2019 drive a crooked road 1954 drive a crooked road 1954 nota usuarios 60 vota. Steve has eddie study a film made along the escape road, then purchases a car and authorizes eddie to make the changes necessary to prepare it for the highspeed drive. Drive a crooked road is a 1954 american crime filmnoir directed by richard quine and starring creatormickeyrooney and dianne foster. Please subscribe my channel drive a crooked road is a 1954 american crime film noir directed by richard quine and featuring mickey rooney, dianne foster, kevin mccarthy, and jack. Drive a crooked road new pal classic dvd richard quine.
He was still racking up film and tv credits more than 80 years later a tenure. I know what you did last summer 2016 film completo. Within the first few minutes of drive a crooked road, you know exactly where its going. An upright car mechanic falls in love with the girlfriend of a gangster. Drive a crooked road, little giant, speedy shannon, richard quine, mickey. Columbia pictures released a particularly fascinating set of titles, since their first knockout boxed set of sony noir titles in 2009, followed by a second set one year later and a pair of oddball bad girls of film noir four film collections. The crooked road is a 1940 american drama film directed by phil rosen and written by richard blake, joseph krumgold and garnett weston. The doomed noir hero played by rooney is all the more. In his autobiography, life is too short, he wrote, in 1954, i did the third picture in my threepicture columbia deal, drive a crooked road. Armed, harold forces eddie into a car and makes him drive along the darkened road, but eddie. Road movies often depict travel in the hinterlands, with the films exploring the theme of alienation and examining the tensions and issues of the cultural identity of a nation or historical period. Drive a crooked road 1954, a modest but tautly directed film noir from this middle period is one that rooney actually liked too.
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