Odd Man Out (novel)

Odd Man Out
AuthorF. L. Green
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime thriller
PublisherMichael Joseph
Publication date
1945
Media typePrint

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[edit]

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[edit]

  1. ^ Steel p.180
  2. ^ Moore p.92
  3. ^ Goble p.191

Bibliography[edit]

  • 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.