Gypsy Girl

Original title: Sky West and Crooked

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

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A young, lonely, emotionally challenged teenage girl finds solace in burying dead animals after the sudden traumatic death of a childhood friend ten years earlier.A young, lonely, emotionally challenged teenage girl finds solace in burying dead animals after the sudden traumatic death of a childhood friend ten years earlier.A young, lonely, emotionally challenged teenage girl finds solace in burying dead animals after the sudden traumatic death of a childhood friend ten years earlier.

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IMDb RATING

6.8/10

841

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 1 nomination

Trivia
This movie was made under the working title, "Bats with Baby Faces", but Director Sir John Mills was persuaded to change it on the grounds that people might think it was a Hammer horror movie about vampires. Many critics noted that the new title, "Sky West and Crooked", would simply be incomprehensible to the casual movie-goer, although its meaning is explained in this movie. (The phrase "sky west and crooked" refers to someone who, as portrayed by Hayley Mills, is slightly mentally challenged).

Goofs
Brydie repeatedly transitions between wearing shoes and being barefoot between scenes.

Alternate versions
The version sold to cable television by the Samuel Goldwyn Company omits the opening theme song sung by Hayley Mills, replacing it with the background score, this despite a song credit in the opening scroll.

Connections
Featured in Film Preview: Episode #1.3 (1966)

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Review

Featured review

7/10

Sky West And Crooked

I am lucky as a 14-year-old to know this movie even exists, I was looking through Netflix and stumbled upon it. I found this movie positively delightful. Young handsome Gypsy boy Roibin, played by Ian McShane, falls instantly in love with the pretty fair haired Brydie White, played by Hayley Mills, who in time also returns his affections. It's sad to say that this movie is a forgotten classic. And that it is a miracle that someone as young as me even knows it exists, much less actually seen it. The beginning song that I hear is sung by Hayley Mills sets the mood just right. But I will not let this movie continue to be forgotten so easily. I will try my best to remind the world of this adorable button nose 17-year-old village girl and dashing dark-skinned boy. So in return to those who read these reviews and would actually like to see it, to you I leave a gift,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xH4JN1u32o&feature=related

That's right, Sky West And Crooked completely on YouTube. Enjoy!