Third Man Out

Third Man Out

2005 · 98 min · EN · R · 5.8 (31 votes)
Dir. Ron Oliver · Starring Chad Allen, Sebastian Spence, Jack Wetherall, Woody Jeffreys, Sean Young, April Telek · Music William Buckingham III · The Donald Strachey Collection

A gay detective who always gets his man.

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Gay detective Donald Strachey is commissioned to protect gay activist John Rutka, who is known for "outing" prominent citizens. Strachey abandons bodyguard duty when he feels that Rutka is staging the threats against himself. When Rutka turns up dead, Strachey is faced with an extensive list of enemies all with enough motive to kill.

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A rain-slicked, morally gray urban landscape where secrets fester and danger lurks. This is a classic detective yarn, steeped in suspicion and the complexities of identity politics, where every shadow could hide a killer.

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