Sail a Crooked Ship

Sail a Crooked Ship is a 1961 American black-and-white 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 1960 novel of the same name by Nathaniel Benchley.

Sail a Crooked Ship
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Directed byIrving Brecher
Screenplay byRuth Brooks Flippen
Bruce Geller
Based onSail a Crooked Ship (novel)
by Nathaniel Benchley
Produced byPhilip Barry Jr.
StarringRobert Wagner
Dolores Hart
Carolyn Jones
Frankie Avalon
Ernie Kovacs
Frank Gorshin
CinematographyJoseph Biroc
Edited byWilliam A. Lyon
Music byGeorge Duning
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • December 1961 (1961-12)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1,150,000 (US/Canada)

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.

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