Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

FountainPen A rather improbable stoyline, but the movie is well worth wacthing for Hayley Mills alone ! She is so luscious-looking amd proves herself to be a very fine actress. Ian McShane is an odd choice for her love interest, doesn't come across as anything other than a peeping, dangerous pervert, and not appropriate for Hayley's character who is extremely vulnerable and child-like. He looks coarse and crude, to be blunt, as well as at least 15 years her senior. The cinematogrpahy is excellent, direction expert, and lesser cast members play their parts well, especially the children. I recommend this film highly... if only for Hayley Mills!

zjewel13 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=relatedThat's right, Sky West And Crooked completely on YouTube. Enjoy!

lambchopnixon The necessary summary is a girl had a bad childhood experience and goes instead with gypsy Ian McShane. The film is a lot better than otherwise when it's just Mills and McShane but the trouble is every other adult character is awful. This is a good example of how British film can be so bad. Many of the countries are country bumpkin 'types' without any sign of subtlety. The dialog is pretty risible. The 1960's was a bad decade for British film anyway and here's an example of that. The '60's with its farce and a mugging Julie Christie plus the preoccupation with kitchen sink realism up north. The 50's was weaker than the decade before it, the film industry starting to fall apart in the UK, then horrible films like this coming along instead. Just squeezing into the 60's was 'Peeping Tom', by Michael Powell. One great film before the critics shut down his career for offending them. Forget the 60's, the 40's is where it's at: Powell and Pressburger films released between 1943 and '49, a truly brilliant film every single of those years. Much of Sky West and Crooked would seem at first in comparison to have been made by one of those uselessly written bumpkins it portrays.

rpniew This is, in fact, a forgotten film (note the absence of a video or DVD) and a largely underappreciated one. I have found on many occasions Mills's Disney films to be very syrupy and cloying; this one proves beyond that shadow of a doubt that she could act. Obviously, her father, who directed the film, had some knowledge of her capabilities. This performance, and the loving, detailed depiction of the British countryside (mentioned in the other user comments) overwhelm any other minor errors in technical knowhow (the sound and cinematography are not the best) and pacing. This is not a perfect film. One could better describe it as a rough, uncut diamond of a film -- and those are the most valuable of all.