Drive a Crooked Road

Eddie Shannon (Mickey Rooney) is a top-flight mechanic and budding race car driver who is socially inept. When the beautiful Barbara (Dianne Foster) enters his life, he experiences his first chance at love. But Barbara has other plans, wanting him to help Steve and Harold by driving a getaway car in a bank robbery. What looks like a simple business proposition is not as easy as it seems, however, leading Eddie to fend for his life.