Sail a Crooked Ship (1961)

Directed by

Irving Brecher

Genre

heist film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 28m

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A bumbling group of crooks tries to pull off a heist. The plan is full of mistakes and mishaps.

lightheartedcomicoffbeatplayfulquirkybreezywry

What happens

Sail a Crooked Ship is a 1961 American black-and-white comedy heist film starring Robert Wagner, Dolores Hart, Carolyn Jones, Frankie Avalon, Ernie Kovacs and Frank Gorshin. It was directed by Irving Brecher and was based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Nathaniel Benchley. Sail a Crooked Ship was Kovacs' last movie, released shortly before he was killed in a car crash. Hart's other 1961 film, Francis of Assisi, inspired her to retire from acting two years later and become a Roman Catholic nun. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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