Sail a Crooked Ship
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| Directed by | Irving Brecher |
| Produced by | Philip Barry Jr. |
| Screenplay by |
Ruth Brooks Flippen Bruce Geller |
| Based on |
Sail a Crooked Ship (novel) by Nathaniel Benchley |
| Starring |
Robert Wagner Dolores Hart Carolyn Jones Frankie Avalon Ernie Kovacs Frank Gorshin |
| Music by | George Duning |
| Cinematography | Joseph Biroc |
| Edited by | William A. Lyon |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Release date
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December 1961 |
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Running time
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88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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 novel of the same name by Nathaniel Benchley, published in 1960.
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.
When Gilbert Barrows (Robert Wagner) disobeys his boss and tries to refit an old Liberty Ship for cargo use instead of scrapping it, he inadvertently puts it into the hands of a colorful group of crooks led by good-hearted screw-up Bugsy G. Fogelmeyer (Ernie Kovacs) and brainy sociopath George M. Wilson (Frank Gorshin). The crooks plan to use the ship to make their getaway after they pull a bank robbery in Boston, and they kidnap Barrows and his girlfriend Elinor Harrison (Dolores Hart) – his boss's daughter – to prevent leaving any witnesses behind. With the help of Bugsy's nephew Rodney J. Fogelmeyer (Frankie Avalon), Gilbert and Elinor manage to foil the crooks' plans by using Elinor's bra as a slingshot and attracting the Coast Guard.
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