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Odd Man Out

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Odd Man Out

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Summary

Classic drama starring James Mason as escaped prisoner Johnny McQueen, the idealist leader of "the organisation". During a hold-up to obtain funds he is shot, badly wounded and left in the street by a fellow gang member. From then on, he is hunted without mercy.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

David Parkinson

This is as agonising a piece of cinema as you are ever likely to see. James Mason gives the performance of a lifetime as an IRA man on the run in the backwaters of Belfast after he is fatally wounded during a robbery. Mason conveys his pain and isolation with consummate skill, but his desperate plight is made nigh-on unbearable by the masterly direction of Carol Reed and the chillingly atmospheric photography of Robert Krasker. The unforgiving landscape is exploited with outrageous camera angles and photographic distortions to fashion a city that is at once forbiddingly cold and worth dying for. Reed and Krasker would scale even greater creative heights three years later when they collaborated on The Third Man.

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Cast

rolenameJohnnyJames MasonLukeyRobert NewtonKathleenKathleen RyanDennisRobert BeattyShellF J McCormickGrannyKitty KirwanRosieFay ComptonPatCyril CusackFencie, the barmanWilliam HartnellNolanDan O'Herlihy

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rolenameDirectorCarol Reed

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Theatrical distributor

General Film Dist Ltd

Released on

2006-09-01

Languages

English

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Black and white

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