| Sky West and Crooked | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | John Mills |
| Produced by | Jack Hanbury |
| Written by | Mary Hayley Bell John Prebble |
| Starring | Hayley Mills Ian McShane Annette Crosbie Laurence Naismith |
| Music by | Malcolm Arnold |
| Cinematography | Arthur Ibbetson |
| Release date(s) | 1966 |
| Language | English |
Sky West and Crooked is a 1966 film, starring Hayley Mills, directed by her father John Mills, and co-written by her mother Mary Hayley Bell. It was released in the US as Gypsy Girl.
Hayley Mills plays a seventeen year-old young woman, Brydie White, in a village in the West Country of England. Brydie is a teenage girl who suffers arrested development after her involvement in a shooting accident. Though physically mature she retains the mentality and social connections of a teenager, and a fascination with dead animals and burial. Believing that she will be unable to survive without her dying mother the townsfolk fear commitment to an institution is inevitable. Her involvement with a young gypsy man, Roibin Krisenki (played by Ian McShane in one of his earliest film roles) and later personal loss manage to at least partly resolve these mental issues.