I recently watched the little 1954 Columbia semi-noir: "Drive A Crooked Road," starring Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster and Kevin McCarthy, and written by Blake Edwards.
Surprisingly underplayed performance by Rooney as a loser auto mechanic, suddenly wooed by a beautiful girl--so that
she can twist him to help in a bank robbery.
These little discoveries are some of my favorite movie moments. Not perfect, but an oddly affecting little story--the early scenes quite so. Probably cost about $200,000 to make, shot mostly (I guess) in and around LA area. I'll take it any day over the latest digital $50 million blockbuster.
Any fans of this film out there? Can you tell me more about its making?
Mickey Rooney..."Drives a Crooked Road"
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Re: Mickey Rooney..."Drives a Crooked Road"
Yes, found it a perfectly watchable programmer, though the copy I saw was one of those three-films-on-one-disc efforts which apparently got given free when you bought a dvd player. This was before I heard how the Public Domain allowed companies to issue cheap, no-frills discs, which occasionally threw up the odd early rarity. Not exactly outstanding, but certainly not one of those "Why did I watch that pile of c**p?" pictures. And not wasteful on the money front, either."