The Lost Man

An unofficial remake of the Carol Reed classic Odd Man Out, transposing that film's story about an IRA fugitive into a story set in the American South. Sidney Poitier plays a black radical who plans a robbery on a factory that only employs whites. The heist backfires and Poitier, with white love interest Joanna Shimkus, finds himself on the run. As the highly equivocal hero, partially modelled on Malcolm X, Poitier probably thought this was a brave movie to make considering his whiter-than-black image, but it's hardly a radical movie, just another caper-gone-wrong action film. There's also a twist at the end that doesn't work at all and signals a rapid descent into treacle.