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* KnightTemplarParent: The father of the girl Coy Cavendish is going to have sex with. He theatens him with a gun.
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* OverprotectiveDad: The father of the girl Coy Cavendish is going to have sex with. He theatens him with a gun.
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* DeterminedWidow: After escaping, Pitman tries to steals a horse from a widow. She catches him and threatens him with a gun.
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''There Was a Crooked Man...'' is a 1970 {{Western}} film directed by Creator/JosephLMankiewicz and starring Creator/KirkDouglas, Creator/HenryFonda, Creator/HumeCronyn, Warren Oates, Creator/WarrenOates, Creator/BurgessMeredith, and Creator/LeeGrant.
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Paris Pitman (Douglas) steals half a million dollars and hides it in a nest of rattlesnakes.
He's arrested soon after and is sentenced to a penitentiary. He will try to escape and get his loot back. After a riot in the penitentiary, Woodward W. Lopeman (Fonda), an ex-sheriff, is appointed as warden. He will try to improve the living conditions of the convicts.
''There Was a Crooked Man...'' is a 1970 {{Western}} film directed by Creator/JosephLMankiewicz, starring Creator/KirkDouglas and Creator/HenryFonda.
Paris Pitman (Douglas) steals half a million dollars and hides it in a nest of rattlesnakes.
He's arrested soon after and is sentenced to a penitentiary. He will try to escape and get his loot back. After a riot in the penitentiary, Woodward W. Lopeman (Fonda), an ex-sheriff, is appointed as warden. He will try to improve the living conditions of the convicts.
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* ClothingDamage: During the second riot, Jessie gets her clothes ripped off by the inmates, leaving her in her undergarments. Originally, the scene had her getting stripped totally nude, running through the desert in the aftermath of the riot.
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* ClothingDamage: During the second riot, Jessie Miss Brundidge gets her clothes ripped off by the inmates, leaving her in her undergarments. Originally, the scene had her getting stripped totally nude, running through the desert in the aftermath of the riot.
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Paris Pitman (Douglas) steals half a million dollars and hides them in a nest of rattlesnakes. He is arrested soon after and is sentenced to a penitentiary. He will try to escape and get his loot back. After a riot in the penitentiary, Woodward W. Lopeman (Fonda), an ex-sheriff, is appointed as warden. He will try to improve the living conditions of the convicts.
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Paris Pitman (Douglas) steals half a million dollars and hides them it in a nest of rattlesnakes. He is rattlesnakes.
He's arrested soon after and is sentenced to a penitentiary. He will try to escape and get his loot back. After a riot in the penitentiary, Woodward W. Lopeman (Fonda), an ex-sheriff, is appointed as warden. He will try to improve the living conditions of the convicts.
He's arrested soon after and is sentenced to a penitentiary. He will try to escape and get his loot back. After a riot in the penitentiary, Woodward W. Lopeman (Fonda), an ex-sheriff, is appointed as warden. He will try to improve the living conditions of the convicts.
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: John Randolph and Dudley Whinner quarrel during most of the film. When Randolph pretends to commit suicide, Dudley is really moved.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: John Randolph and Dudley Whinner quarrel during most of the film. When Randolph pretends to commit suicide, Dudley is really moved.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: John Randolph Cyrus Mcnutt and Dudley Whinner. They live together; they are not manly; Dudley prepares food for Randolph; Cyrus; they quarrel like and old couple, but Dudley really loves Randolph: Cyrus: when Randolph Cyrus pretends to commit suicide, Dudley is really moved.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther:John Randolph Cyrus Mcnutt and Dudley Whinner quarrel during most of the film. When Randolph Cyrus pretends to commit suicide, Dudley is really moved.
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* ConMan: John Randolph and Dudley Whinner pretend to collect money to help the deaf-mutes. Dudley Whinner is supposed to be a deaf-mute.
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* FakeCharity: John Randolph and Dudley Whinner pretend to collect money to help the deaf-mutes. Dudley Whinner is supposed to be a deaf-mute.
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* TheLoad: Randolph keeps on complaining about his health and the harsh living conditions in the penitentiary.
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* TheLoad: Randolph Cyrus keeps on complaining about his health and the harsh living conditions in the penitentiary.
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* NoHonorAmongThieves: Pitman is not loyal to his accomplices. In the opening sequence, he shoots one down. [[spoiler:In the end, he uses Coy Cavendish for a diversion that is a suicide mission. He also abandons John Randolph and Dudley Whinner inside the penitentiary. Finally, he shoots Floyd Moon down.]]
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* NoHonorAmongThieves: Pitman is not loyal to his accomplices. In the opening sequence, he shoots one down. [[spoiler:In the end, he uses Coy Cavendish for a diversion that is a suicide mission. He also abandons John Randolph Cyrus Mcnutt and Dudley Whinner inside the penitentiary. Finally, he shoots Floyd Moon down.]]
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Pitman (TheLeader) has no choice. He must carry out his plan with the help of the people he finds in the penitentiary and they are misfits: Floyd Moon (TheLancer), Dudley Whinner (TheSmartGuy), Ah-Ping (TheBigGuy), Randolph (TheLoad), the Missouri Kid ([[MentorArchetype the Mentor]]) and Coy Cavendish (the NaiveNewcomer).
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Pitman (TheLeader) has no choice. He must carry out his plan with the help of the people he finds in the penitentiary and they are misfits: Floyd Moon (TheLancer), Dudley Whinner (TheSmartGuy), Ah-Ping (TheBigGuy), Randolph Cyrus Mcnutt (TheLoad), the Missouri Kid ([[MentorArchetype the Mentor]]) and Coy Cavendish (the NaiveNewcomer).
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* PreserveYourGays: DepravedHomosexual guard Skinner survives the film, as does the AmbiguouslyGay couple of Cyrus and Dudley (whereas most of their unambiguously heterosexual cohorts are less lucky).
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* KillingInSelfDefense: Coy Cavendish hits the angry father of his latest girlfriend with a billiard ball in self-defense. The husband dies, and Coy is sentenced to hang.
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* KillingInSelfDefense: Coy Cavendish hits the angry father of his latest girlfriend with a billiard ball in self-defense. The husband father dies, and Coy is sentenced to hang.
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** Floyd Moon shoot at a disarmed sheriff Lopeman after attacking a hat-seller.
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** Floyd Moon shoot shoots at a disarmed sheriff Lopeman after attacking a hat-seller.
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* AccidentalMurder: Coy Cavendish hits the angry husband of his latest girlfriend with a billiard ball in self-defense. The husband dies, and Coy is sentenced to hang.
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* AccidentalMurder: Coy Cavendish hits the angry husband of his latest girlfriend with a billiard ball in self-defense. The husband dies, and Coy is sentenced to hang.
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* BaitTheDog: The Missouri Kid is an amiable man who tries to help his cellmates and dreams of settling down as a farmer after escaping. [[spoiler: He also murders one of the kinder guards in cold blood during the escape, although this causes him to have a SanitySlippage and abandon trying to escape.]]
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Prison guards Whiskey and Tobaccy are only ever called by the nicknames they received due to their preferred choice of bribe.
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* PetTheDog: Skinner is a hard-nosed guard who disapproves of Lopeman's more lenient tactics, but after the riot, he doesn't rub it in how Lopeman's plan didn't work.
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* ClothingDamage: During the second riot, Jessie gets her clothes ripped off by the inmates, leaving her in her undergarments. Originally, the scene had her getting stripped totally nude, running through the desert in the aftermath of the riot.
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* TitledAfterTheSong: "There Was a Crooked Man" is an English nursery rhyme.
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* CriminalProcedural: The main characters are convicts serving prison terms.
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* TheBigGuy: Ah-Ping is tall, strong, violent and mute.
* TheLancer: Floyd Moon is a contrast with Pitman: he is not very clever, he does not speak much, and he respects some kind of moral code.
* TheLeader: Pitman is the charismatic mastermind of a RagtagBunchOfMisfits.
* TheLoad: Randolph keeps on complaining about his health and the harsh living conditions in the penitentiary.
* TheLoad: Randolph keeps on complaining about his health and the harsh living conditions in the penitentiary.
* MentorArchetype: The Missouri Kid is a convict who has spent most of his life in the penitentiary. He tells Pitman about how to put up with the penitentiary living conditions.
* NaiveNewcomer: Coy Cavendish is young, spirited, but he is not prepared to the realities of the penitentiary: in the first brawl, he is easily knocked out by another convict; [[spoiler:in the climax, he is used by Pitman in a diversion and he is killed.]]
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Pitman has no choice. He must carry out his plan with the help of the people he finds in the penitentiary and they are misfits.
** Pitman is TheLeader, the charismatic mastermind.
** Floyd Moon is TheLancer. He is a contrast with Pitman: he is not very clever, he does not speak much, and he respects some kind of moral code.
** Dudley Whinner is TheSmartGuy. He can paint and he is much wiser than the others: he does not want to embark on the risky escape plan.
** Ah-Ping is TheBigGuy. He is tall, strong, violent and mute.
** Randolph is TheLoad. He keeps on complaining about his health and the harsh living conditions in the penitentiary.
** The Missouri Kid is [[MentorArchetype the Mentor]]. He is a convict who has spent most of his life in the penitentiary. He tells Pitman about how to put up with the penitentiary living conditions.
** Coy Cavendish is the NaiveNewcomer. He is young, spirited, but he is not prepared to the realities of the penitentiary: in the first brawl, he is easily knocked out by another convict; [[spoiler:in the climax, he is used by Pitman in a diversion and he is killed.]]
** Pitman is TheLeader, the charismatic mastermind.
** Floyd Moon is TheLancer. He is a contrast with Pitman: he is not very clever, he does not speak much, and he respects some kind of moral code.
** Dudley Whinner is TheSmartGuy. He can paint and he is much wiser than the others: he does not want to embark on the risky escape plan.
** Ah-Ping is TheBigGuy. He is tall, strong, violent and mute.
** Randolph is TheLoad. He keeps on complaining about his health and the harsh living conditions in the penitentiary.
** The Missouri Kid is [[MentorArchetype the Mentor]]. He is a convict who has spent most of his life in the penitentiary. He tells Pitman about how to put up with the penitentiary living conditions.
** Coy Cavendish is the NaiveNewcomer. He is young, spirited, but he is not prepared to the realities of the penitentiary: in the first brawl, he is easily knocked out by another convict; [[spoiler:in the climax, he is used by Pitman in a diversion and he is killed.]]
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Pitman (TheLeader) has no choice. He must carry out his plan with the help of the people he finds in the penitentiary and they are misfits.
** Pitman is TheLeader, the charismatic mastermind.
**misfits: Floyd Moon is TheLancer. He is a contrast with Pitman: he is not very clever, he does not speak much, and he respects some kind of moral code.
**(TheLancer), Dudley Whinner is TheSmartGuy. He can paint and he is much wiser than the others: he does not want to embark on the risky escape plan.
**(TheSmartGuy), Ah-Ping is TheBigGuy. He is tall, strong, violent and mute.
**(TheBigGuy), Randolph is TheLoad. He keeps on complaining about his health and (TheLoad), the harsh living conditions in the penitentiary.
** TheMissouri Kid is [[MentorArchetype ([[MentorArchetype the Mentor]]. He is a convict who has spent most of his life in the penitentiary. He tells Pitman about how to put up with the penitentiary living conditions.
**Mentor]]) and Coy Cavendish is the NaiveNewcomer. He is young, spirited, but he is not prepared to the realities of the penitentiary: in the first brawl, he is easily knocked out by another convict; [[spoiler:in the climax, he is used by Pitman in a diversion and he is killed.]](the NaiveNewcomer).
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* TheSmartGuy: Dudley Whinner can paint and he is much wiser than the others: he does not want to embark on the risky escape plan.
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** Pitman is having sex with two prostitutes when Lomax recognizes him throug a peep hole and start shouting.
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* VillainProtagonist: Paris Pitman is the main character of the film and he is a thief who wants to escape a penitentiary and to get his loot back, at any cost. He [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] the other characters to achieve his goal.
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Paris Pitman (Creator/KirkDouglas) steals half a million dollars and hides them in a nest of rattlesnakes. He is arrested soon after and is sentenced to a penitentiary. He will try to escape and get his loot back. After a riot in the penitentiary, Woodward W. Lopeman (Creator/HenryFonda), an ex-sheriff, is appointed as warden. He will try to improve the living conditions of the convicts.
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Paris Pitman (Creator/KirkDouglas) (Douglas) steals half a million dollars and hides them in a nest of rattlesnakes. He is arrested soon after and is sentenced to a penitentiary. He will try to escape and get his loot back. After a riot in the penitentiary, Woodward W. Lopeman (Creator/HenryFonda), (Fonda), an ex-sheriff, is appointed as warden. He will try to improve the living conditions of the convicts.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Paris Pitman kills Floyd Moon after he helped him to escape.]]
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**In the opening sequence, after stealing the Lomaxes' money, Pitman shoots one of his accomplices down to get the whole loot.
**[[spoiler:Paris Pitman kills Floyd Moon after he helped him to escape.]]
**In the opening sequence, after stealing the Lomaxes' money, Pitman shoots one of his accomplices down to get the whole loot.
**[[spoiler:Paris Pitman kills Floyd Moon after he helped him to escape.]]
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* TheInformant: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Floyd Moon has been an informant many times in the past, according to Lopeman, but this time he does not agree to give information about Pitman's plans to Lopeman, because he thinks he is his friend. [[spoiler:He's wrong.]]
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** Paris Pitman steals half a million dollars from a family [[GentlemanThief in grandiloquent fashion]].
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* NoHonorAmongThieves: Pitman is not loyal to his accomplices. In the opening sequence, he shoots one down. [[spoiler:In the end, he uses Coy Cavendish for a diversion that is a suicide mission. He also abandons John Randolph and Dudley Whinner inside the penitentiary. Finally, he shoots Floyd Moon down.]]
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* FiveManBand: Pitman is TheLeader (the charismatic mastermind). Floyd Moon is TheLancer (he is a contrast with Pitman: he is not very clever and he is introvert). Dudley Whinner is TheSmartGuy (he can paint and he is much wiser than the others: he does not want to embark on the risky escape plan). Ah-Ping is TheBigGuy (he is tall, strong, violent and mute). Randolph is TheChick (he is effeminate and he keeps on complaining about his health and the harsh living conditions in the penitentiary).
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Pitman has no choice. He must carry out his plan with the help of the people he finds in the penitentiary and they are misfits.
** Pitman is TheLeader, the charismatic mastermind.
** Floyd Moon is TheLancer. He is a contrast with Pitman: he is not very clever, he does not speak much, and he respects some kind of moral code.
** Dudley Whinner is TheSmartGuy. He can paint and he is much wiser than the others: he does not want to embark on the risky escape plan.
** Ah-Ping is TheBigGuy. He is tall, strong, violent and mute.
** Randolph is TheLoad. He keeps on complaining about his health and the harsh living conditions in the penitentiary.
** The Missouri Kid is [[MentorArchetype the Mentor]]. He is a convict who has spent most of his life in the penitentiary. He tells Pitman about how to put up with the penitentiary living conditions.
** Coy Cavendish is the NaiveNewcomer. He is young, spirited, but he is not prepared to the realities of the penitentiary: in the first brawl, he is easily knocked out by another convict; [[spoiler:in the climax, he is used by Pitman in a diversion and he is killed.]]
** Pitman is TheLeader, the charismatic mastermind.
** Floyd Moon is TheLancer. He is a contrast with Pitman: he is not very clever, he does not speak much, and he respects some kind of moral code.
** Dudley Whinner is TheSmartGuy. He can paint and he is much wiser than the others: he does not want to embark on the risky escape plan.
** Ah-Ping is TheBigGuy. He is tall, strong, violent and mute.
** Randolph is TheLoad. He keeps on complaining about his health and the harsh living conditions in the penitentiary.
** The Missouri Kid is [[MentorArchetype the Mentor]]. He is a convict who has spent most of his life in the penitentiary. He tells Pitman about how to put up with the penitentiary living conditions.
** Coy Cavendish is the NaiveNewcomer. He is young, spirited, but he is not prepared to the realities of the penitentiary: in the first brawl, he is easily knocked out by another convict; [[spoiler:in the climax, he is used by Pitman in a diversion and he is killed.]]
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* FiveManBand: Pitman is TheLeader (the charismatic mastermind). Floyd Moon is TheLancer (he is a contrast with Pitman: he is not very clever and he is introvert). Dudley Whinner is TheSmartGuy (he can paint and he is much wiser than the others: he does not want to buy embark on the risky escape plan). Ah-Ping is TheBigGuy (he is tall, strong, violent and mute). Randolph is TheChick (he is effeminate and he keeps on complaining about his health and the harsh living conditions in the penitentiary).
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