Drive a Crooked Road (Little Giant) (1954)

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Directed by

Richard Quine

Starring (View all)

Mickey Rooney
Eddie Shannon

Dianne Foster
Barbara Mathews

Kevin McCarthy
Steve Norris

Jack Kelly
Harold Baker

Harry Landers
Ralph

Jerry Paris
Phil

Paul Picerni
Carl

Dick Crockett
Don

Written by

Blake Edwards
(screen play)

Richard Quine
(adaptation)

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Drive a Crooked Road

4 years, 10 months ago at Jun 16 5:07

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A bit of a noir-by-numbers, but I’ll be damned if I didn’t enjoy the thrill ride of Drive a Crooked Road. Sure, the plot is the basic building blocks of a film noir, but it’s nice little B-level entry in Mickey Rooney’s filmography that careens through its brief running time with no fat on the bones and a strange little ending. I doubt anyone will ever mistake this for a stellar entry in t... read more

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Eddie Shannon (Mickey Rooney) is a guileless Los Angeles auto mechanic with dreams of one day racing in European car meets. Eddie encounters fetching Barbara Mathews (Dianne Foster) and, much to his surprise and delight, she agrees to date him. But Barbara's true intentions are revealed when she introduces Eddie to her associates -- Steve Norris (Kevin McCarthy) and Harold Baker (Jack Kelly) -- who, as it turns out, need a getaway driver for a planned bank heist.

Release date: 10 March 1954

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Drive a Crooked Road

“A bit of a noir-by-numbers, but I’ll be damned if I didn’t enjoy the thrill ride of Drive a Crooked Road. Sure, the plot is the basic building blocks of a film noir, but it’s nice little B-level entry in Mickey Rooney’s filmography that careens through its brief running time with no fat on the bones and a strange little ending. I doubt anyone will ever mistake this for a stellar entry in the noir canon, but it’s a nice little minor discovery. Rooney plays a lonely auto mechanic that becomes the patsy for a femme fatale (Dianne Foster) and her wannabe bank robber beau (Kevin McCarthy). You can guess where it’s going: femme fatale temps Rooney, introduces him to bank robber beau, and then slowly introduces him to their criminal plans. It zips through these story beats with s” read more