Sky West and Crooked

Sky West and Crooked
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	John Mills Productions
Distributed by	Rank Organization (UK) Continental Distributing (USA)
Release dates	1965
Language	English

Sky West and Crooked is a 1965 film, starring Hayley Mills, directed by her father John Mills, and co-written by her mother Mary Hayley Bell. It was released in the US as Gypsy Girl.

Plot summary

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, Roibin Krisenki (played by Ian McShane in one of his earliest film roles) and 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.

External links

• Sky West and Crooked at the Internet Movie Database