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Odd Man Out

Odd Man Out

1947 · 116 min · EN · NR · 7.3 (168 votes)
Dir. Carol Reed · Starring James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, F.J. McCormick, Kathleen Ryan, William Hartnell · Music William Alwyn

“An adventure in unbearable suspense!”

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Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

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A palpable sense of dread permeates this grim manhunt. Every shadow feels menacing, every encounter fraught with suspicion. The city itself becomes a suffocating maze, trapping its protagonist in a desperate fight for survival.

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