{{Short description|1932 British film by Leslie S. Hiscott}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Use British English|date=June 2016}} {{Infobox film | name = The Crooked Lady | image = The_Crooked_Lady_film_frame_(1932).jpg | caption = Austin Trevor and Isobel Elsom in the film<ref>{{Cite journal|date=9 April 1932|title=The Crooked Lady|id={{ProQuest|1771152894}}|magazine=Picturegoer|volume=1|issue=46|pages=24}}</ref> | director = Leslie S. Hiscott | producer = Julius Hagen | writer = H. Fowler Mear | based_on = novel ''The Crooked Lady'' by William S. Stone<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yyqc0Qa6b60C&q=the+crooked+lady+1932+literary+sources+in+film&pg=PA724|title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film|first=Alan|last=Goble|date=1 January 1999|pages=724|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=9783110951943|via=Google Books}}</ref> | starring = George Graves <br> Isobel Elsom <br> Austin Trevor | music = | cinematography = | editing = | studio = Real Art Productions | distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer {{small|(UK)}} | released = {{Film date|1932|03||UK|df=y}} | runtime = 75 minutes | country = United Kingdom | language = English }} '''''The Crooked Lady''''' is a 1932 British drama film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring George Graves, Isobel Elsom, Ursula Jeans and Austin Trevor.<ref name="BFIsearch">{{Cite web |title=The Crooked Lady |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150013830 |access-date=11 May 2026 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}</ref> It was written by H. Fowler Mear based on the novel of the same title by William S. Stone. A quota quickie,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Chibnall |first=Steve |title=Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film |publisher=British Film Institute |year=2007 |isbn=978-1844571550 |pages=193}}</ref> it was filmed at Twickenham Studios.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wood |first=Linda |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-british-films-1927-1939.pdf |title=British Films, 1927–1939 |publisher=British Film Institute |year=1986 |pages=74 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016015016/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-british-films-1927-1939.pdf |archive-date=16 October 2022}}</ref>
== Plot == Ex-army Captain James Kent is out of work, and gets involved with a gang of thieves, but decides to go straight when he falls in love with lady detective Joan Collinson.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |date=12 August 1932 |title=The Crooked Lady |volume=8 |issue=200 |pages=25. |id={{ProQuest|1705183659}} |magazine=Film Weekly}}</ref>
== Cast == * George Graves as Sir Charles Murdoch * Isobel Elsom as Miriam Sinclair * Ursula Jeans as Joan Collinson * Austin Trevor as Captain James Kent * Alexander Field as Slim Barrett * Edmund Willard as Joseph Garstin * S. J. Warmington as Inspector Hilton * Frank Pettingell as Hugh Weldon * Moore Marriott as Crabby * Henry B. Longhurst as John Morland * Paddy Browne as Susie
== Preservation status == The British Film Institute National Archive holds no stills or ephemera, and no film or video materials.<ref name="BFIsearch" />
== Reception == ''Film Weekly'' wrote: "An unusual and quite entertaining British mixtare of crook melodrama and Cockney comedy. Much of the film's appeal depends on the performances of a really noteworthy cast. George Graves has little to do as the foppish baronet, but whenever he gets a chance he extracts the maximum of comedy from the minimum of opportunity. Ursula Jeans is quite delightful as the lady detective, Alexander Field contributes a very good study of a Cockney crook, and Austin Trevor acts smoothly as the officer turned thief."''<ref name=":0" />''
''Kine Weekly'' wrote: "A thoroughly sound British melodrama livened with Cockney humour and very well acted and produced. It should go down with practically any audience, the stars' performances, though of the thumbnail variety, affording an additional box-office pull."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=24 March 1932 |title=The Crooked Lady |volume=181 |issue=1301 |pages=24 |id={{ProQuest|2322673975}} |magazine=Kine Weekly}}</ref>
''The Daily Film Renter'' wrote: "Excellent comedy-drama of ex-officer who becomes a crook, but goes straight when he finds that he has robbed widow of man who lost his life in saving his (the officer's) life. A good thrill, on somewhat old-fashioned lines, and good dialogue, together with a good comedy characterisation by Alexander Field, are features of a picture which will score direct hit everywhere."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=17 March 1932 |title=The Crooked Lady |volume= |issue=1589 |pages=4 |id={{ProQuest|2594633015}} |magazine=The Daily Film Renter}}</ref>
''Picturegoer'' wrote: "The main points of interest in this picture, which opens very well, but later becomes rather overburdened with dialogue, are the appearance of George Graves and some good characterisations both of a serious and a comedy nature."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=13 August 1932 |title=The Crooked Lady |volume=2 |issue=64 |pages=19 |id={{ProQuest|1771153060}} |magazine=Picturegoer}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{IMDb title|0021771|The Crooked Lady}}
{{Leslie S. Hiscott}}
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