Odd Man Out (novel)
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| Author | F. L. Green |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime thriller |
| Publisher | Michael Joseph |
Publication date | 1945 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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Odd Man Out is a 1945 crime thriller novel by the British writer F. L. Green.[1] The novel is set in present-day Northern Ireland and portrays an IRA heist gone wrong.[2]
Film adaptation
In 1947, it was made into the British film of the same title directed by Carol Reed and starring James Mason, Kathleen Ryan, and Robert Newton.[3] In 1969, it was loosely remade as The Lost Man an American film starring Sidney Poitier.
References
Bibliography
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. ISBN 978-1-85739-229-6.
- Moore, Matthew Dwight. Watching Cosmic Time: The Suspense Films of Hitchcock, Welles, and Reed. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 26 Oct 2022. ISBN 978-1-6667-3262-7.
- Steel, Jayne. Demons, Hamlets and Femmes Fatales: Representations of Irish Republicanism in Popular Fiction. Peter Lang, 2007. ISBN 978-3-03911-007-0.