Sky West and Crooked (U.S. title: Gypsy Girl; also known as Bats with baby Faces) is a 1966 British romantic drama film starring Hayley Mills.

In a small, isolated village on the West side of England, seven-year-old Brydie White is running with a playmate, Julian, who trips and falls.

Brydie is a tomboy with a fascination for death and dead animals, and spends her time climbing trees and being a nuisance to the adults in the small village where she lives.

The Vicar wakes the next morning to find his graveyard full of little graves the children have made to bury the animals and tries to explain to Brydie that because they have no souls, they cannot be buried on consecrated ground but understanding her simplicity and good intentions asks Julian's father if he would give a small corner of his land to the children to have their own animal graveyard.

Horrified and scared that it might be true, she runs in a fit of hysteria and falls in the river where she is rescued by the gypsy boy, Roibin.

Upset, she decides to go to see her mother's grave and realising that she has nothing to stay home for, promises to return to Roibin.

[citation needed] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "'This Mills family venture, with its echoes of Whistle Down the Wind and, more eccentrically, Jeux Interdits, is really very odd.

Groups of children, cast it would seem for unrelenting cuteness, burble airy nothings about death and funerals; drunken parents sit glumly over their separate bottles; the villagers gather for sprints across pretty Eastman Colour fields to fresh scenes of disaster; and at the end the Church smiles on a most unpromising union of simpletons.

Behind Hayley Mills' slightly shaky country accent, Ian McShane's fairground rig-out, and the overwhelming feyness of it all, lurk assumptions which in cold blood look almost sinister.

John Mills lets it all rip, with even supposedly normal characters (old grave-diggers and suchlike) easily roused to melodramatic tantrums.

There is even a bit of old-fashioned slam bang montage, when faces slide in and out of focus, voices thunder forbiddingly, to signal the imminent demise of poor Mrs.