Sky West and Crooked
| Sky West and Crooked | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | John Mills |
| Produced by | Jack Hanbury |
| Written by |
Mary Hayley Bell John Prebble |
| Starring |
Hayley Mills Ian McShane Annette Crosbie Laurence Naismith |
| Music by | Malcolm Arnold |
| Cinematography | Arthur Ibbetson |
Production company | |
| Distributed by |
Rank Organization (UK) Continental Distributing (USA) |
Release dates | 1965 |
| Language | English |
Sky West and Crooked (known in the United States as Gypsy Girl) is a 1965 romantic drama film, featuring actress Hayley Mills. The film was directed by her father, John Mills, and was co-written by her mother, Mary Hayley Bell.
Plot
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 named Roibin Krisenki, and a 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.