Sail a Crooked Ship

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
Production
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Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release dates
December 1961 (US)
Running time
88 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Sail a Crooked Ship is a 1961 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.[1]

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.

Plot

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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