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  1. Running time. 91 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. Walk a Crooked Mile is a 1948 American anti-communist, Cold War crime film, directed by Gordon Douglas, starring Dennis O'Keefe and Louis Hayward .

  2. Walk a Crooked Mile: Directed by Gordon Douglas. With Louis Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, Louise Allbritton, Carl Esmond. During the Cold War, at a California atomic research plant, an FBI agent and a Scotland Yard inspector join forces to eliminate a foreign atomic spy ring operating in the USA and the UK.

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    • Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
    • Gordon Douglas
    • 1948-09-02
  3. Walk a Crooked Mile. 1948 1h 31m Action. List. Reviews. 50% Audience Score 50+ Ratings. After evidence surfaces of an information leak at a major nuclear lab, FBI Agent Dan O'Hara (Dennis O'Keefe ...

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    • Dennis Schwartz
    • Action
    • Gordon Douglas
  4. Origin. The rhyme was first recorded in print by James Orchard Halliwell in 1842: [2] There was a crooked man and he went a crooked mile, He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile; He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, And they all liv'd together in a little crooked house. It gained popularity in the early twentieth ...

  5. The film is known for its gritty atmosphere and documentary-style cinematography. Raymond Burr in Walk A Crooked Mile (1948) Raw Deal (1948): Directed by Anthony Mann, "Raw Deal" is another collaboration between Mann and O'Keefe. In this film noir, O'Keefe plays Joe Sullivan, a convict who escapes from prison with the help of his girlfriend.

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  6. Summaries. During the Cold War, at a California atomic research plant, an FBI agent and a Scotland Yard inspector join forces to eliminate a foreign atomic spy ring operating in the USA and the UK. A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation.

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  8. Packed with plot and narrated by the authoritative voice of actor Reed Hadley, Gordon Douglas’ Walk a Crooked Mile is a swiftly paced procedural noir overlaying a not-so-subtle postwar message to Americans that communism is evil. Dennis O’Keefe and Louis Hayward play FBI agent Dan O’Hara and Scotland Yard detective “Scotty” Grayson, respectively, who collaborate to investigate a ...

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