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Release Date: 2012
Cast: Cyril Cusack, William Fay, William Hartnell, Maureen Delaney, Denis O'Dea, F. J. McCormick, Elwyn Brook-Jones, Kathleen Ryan, Dan O'Herlihy, Robert Beatty, Beryl Measor, James Mason ...MORE
Cast: Cyril Cusack, William Fay, William Hartnell, Maureen Delaney, Denis O'Dea, F. J. McCormick, Elwyn Brook-Jones, Kathleen Ryan, Dan O'Herlihy, Robert Beatty, Beryl Measor, James Mason, Robert Newton, Kitty Kirwan, Fay Compton ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Drama Film, Crime Fiction, Thriller, Film Noir, Chase Movie, Crime Drama, Suspense
Odd Man Out is a 1947 Anglo-Irish film noir directed by Carol Reed, starring James Mason, and is based on a novel of the same name by F. L. Green.
The film's opening intertitle reads:
The city and the illegal organisation are never explicitly named in the film, but the protagonist is a chieftain in an IRA-like organization. James Mason plays Johnny McQueen, who is trying to escape from the police after an ill-advised mill robbery meant to replenish the organization's coffers. The film follows McQueen, who has been wounded in the robbery, through an increasingly surreal odyssey over a day... MORE
Odd Man Out is a 1947 Anglo-Irish film noir directed by Carol Reed, starring James Mason, and is based on a novel of the same name by F. L. Green.
The film's opening intertitle reads:
The city and the illegal organisation are never explicitly named in the film, but the protagonist is a chieftain in an IRA-like organization. James Mason plays Johnny McQueen, who is trying to escape from the police after an ill-advised mill robbery meant to replenish the organization's coffers. The film follows McQueen, who has been wounded in the robbery, through an increasingly surreal odyssey over a day and a night. The bleak city (almost certainly Belfast), with its labyrinth of havens and traps, draws Johnny ever deeper into itself as the night wears on.
Aside from Mason, the supporting cast was drawn largely from Dublin's Abbey Theatre. Among the other members of the Organisation are Cyril Cusack, Robert Beatty, and Dan O'Herlihy. On his travels, Johnny meets an opportunistic bird-fancier played by F. J. McCormick, a drunken artist played by Robert Newton, a barman (William Hartnell) and a failed surgeon (Elwyn Brook-Jones). Denis O'Dea is the Inspector on Johnny's trail, and Kathleen Ryan, in LESS
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