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Drive a Crooked Road (1954)

Drive a Crooked Road poster
Directed by
Richard Quine
Genre
film noir, heist film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 23m
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 33 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A lonely mechanic gets pulled into a bank heist by a clever woman and her dangerous boyfriend. He must navigate his growing feelings and the risk of being double-crossed.

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What happens

Drive a Crooked Road is a 1954 American crime film noir directed by Richard Quine and starring Mickey Rooney and Dianne Foster. The drama's screenplay was adapted by Blake Edwards and Richard Quine from "The Wheel Man", a story by Canadian James Benson Nablo. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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