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Drive a Crooked Road

Drive a Crooked Road
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Richard Quine
Produced by Jonie Taps
Screenplay by Blake Edwards
Richard Quine
Story by James Benson Nablo
Starring Mickey Rooney
Dianne Foster
Kevin McCarthy
Jack Kelly
Music by Ross DiMaggio
Cinematography Charles Lawton, Jr.
Edited by Jerome Thoms
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
  • March 10, 1954 (1954-03-10) (United States)
Running time
83 minutes
Country United States
Language English

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 Kelly. The drama's screenplay was written by Blake Edwards and Richard Quine from The Wheel Man; a story by Canadian James Benson Nablo.

A mechanic and race car driver (Rooney) is chosen by two bank robbers to help them with a heist. The heist requires a driver with considerable driving skills to complete the task. To bait the driver into the dangerous scheme, one of the robbers uses his girlfriend (Foster) to help persuade the honest young man to assist with the crime.

TV Guide called the film "A crisply done film noir with Rooney taken in by the universal emotional state that was at the root of many noir heroes' problems, loneliness."


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