Odd Man Out (novel) explained

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.

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