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Sail a Crooked Ship

1961·88 min

Sail a Crooked Ship

Directed by Irving Brecher

Comedy

A bungling burglar, determined to go down in the annals of crime as a genius, steals a ship in New York in order to rob a bank in Boston.

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Gilbert Barrows

Elinor Harrison

Bugsy G. Foglemeyer aka The Captain

Ens. Rodney J. Foglemeyer

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Screenplay

Ruth Brooks Flippen

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Sail a Crooked Ship (1961) is about a bungling burglar, determined to go down in the annals of crime as a genius, steals a ship in New York in order to rob a bank in Boston.

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Irving Brecher directed Sail a Crooked Ship (1961).

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