Sky West and Crooked

Sky West and Crooked is a 1965 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.

Plot summary

Hayley Mills plays a seventeen-year-old girl, Brydie White, in a village in the West Country of England. Brydie 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.

Cast

• Hayley Mills as Brydie White
• Ian McShane as Roibin Krisenki
• Annette Crosbie as Mrs. White
• Laurence Naismith as Edwin Dacres
• Geoffrey Bayldon as Reverend Phillip Moss
• Pauline Jameson as Mrs. Moss
• Norman Bird as Mr. Cheeseman - undertaker
• June Ellis as Mrs. Cheeseman
• Hamilton Dyce as Bill Slim - grave digger
• Judith Furse as Mrs. Rigby
• Anne Blake as Mrs. Potts
• Jack Bligh as Fred Strong
• Michael Nightingale as Doctor
• Dafydd Havard as Schoolmaster
• Jacqueline Pearce as Cammellia
• Alan Lake as Camlo

Filming Locations

The film was shot on location in the village of Little Badminton in South Gloucestershire.

External links

• Sky West and Crooked at the Internet Movie Database