THE CROOKED ROAD (1965)

Starring Robert Ryan, Stewart Granger, Nadia Gray, Katherine Woodville, Marius Goring
Directed by Don Chaffey

Print: black/white
Runtime: 92 min.
Genre: drama

This British programmer was filmed on the cheap in Yugoslavia, with an American star,
Robert Ryan, to secure U.S. playdates. Ryan plays an American journalist who views with
alarm as a dictator (Stewart Granger) runs roughshod over the citizens of an unnamed
Balkan country. The news hound puts together enough incriminating evidence to topple the
dictator from power. The problem for Ryan lies with staying alive long enough to make his
findings public—a chancy prospect once the powers-that-be frame the journalist for
murder. The Crooked Road was adapted from The Big Story, a novel by Morris West.
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