Odd Man Out (novel)

Odd Man Out is a 1945 crime thriller novel by the British writer F. L. Green. The novel is set in present-day Northern Ireland and portrays an IRA heist gone wrong.

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. 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. .
• Moore, Matthew Dwight. Watching Cosmic Time: The Suspense Films of Hitchcock, Welles, and Reed. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 26 Oct 2022. .
• Steel, Jayne. Demons, Hamlets and Femmes Fatales: Representations of Irish Republicanism in Popular Fiction. Peter Lang, 2007. .