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Sinful Davey (Original title)
Dates: 1969 (Copyright), 18 May 1969 (Release)

Countries: United Kingdom, USA

Directed by: John Huston

Synopsis: Young Davey Haggart deserts the Army in Scotland in 1821, so that he can outvie his highwayman father, whose career was cut short by the hangman. After many adventures he marries his childhood friend, the girl who has saved him from death.

Genre:
Period drama

Subject:
Highwaymen
Credits (35)
©/Production Company: Mirisch Films Limited, James R. Webb Productions, Executive Producer: Walter Mirisch, Produced by: William N. Graf, Associate Producer: William Kirby, Production Manager: E.J. Holding, Assistant Director: Tom Pevsner, Assistant Director: Jim Brennan, Assistant Director: Ivo Nightingale, Assistant Director: Seamus Byrne, Personal Assistant to Director: Gladys Hill, Continuity: Connie Willis, Casting Director: Robert Lennard, Written by: James R. Webb, Based on 'The Life of David Haggart' by: David Haggart, Director of Photography: Ted Scaife, Director of Photography: Freddie Young, Camera Operator: Ernie Day, Camera Operator: Ken Withers, Stills Photography: Bob Penn, Special Effects: Richard Parker, Film Editor: Russell Lloyd, Production Designer: Stephen Grimes, Art Director: Carmen Dillon, Set Decorator: Josie MacAvin, Construction Engineer: Gus Walker, Costume Designer: Margaret Furse, Make-up: Neville Smallwood, Music Composed/Conducted by: Ken Thorne, Choreography: Alice Dalgarno, Sound: Basil Fenton-Smith, [Consultants]: Historical Research Unit, Master of the Horse: Frank Hayden, [Unit Publicist]: Catherine O'Brien
Cast (24)
John Hurt (David Haggart), Pamela Franklin (Annie), Nigel Davenport (Chief Constable Richardson), Ronald Fraser (MacNab), Robert Morley (Duke of Argyll), Fidelma Murphy (Jean Carlisle), Maxine Audley (Duchess of Argyll), Fionnuala Flanagan (Duke of Argyll's daughter), Donal McCann (Sir James Campbell), Allan Cuthbertson (Captain Douglas), Eddie Byrne (Yorkshire Bill), Niall MacGinnis (Boots Simpson), Noel Purcell (Jock), Judith Furse (Mary), Francis De Wolff (Jock's friend), Paul Farrell (Bailiff of Stirling), Geoffrey Golden (Warden McEwan), Leon Collins (Dr Gresham), Mickser Reid (Billy the Goat), Derek Young (Bobby Rae), John Franklin (George Bagrie), Eileen Murphy (Mary Kidd), Anjelica Huston ([rider]), Brenda Fricker ([uncredited])