Odd Man Out
Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed’s psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason as a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he seeks refuge throughout the city, while the woman he loves (Kathleen Ryan) searches for him among the shadows. Reed and cinematographer Robert Krasker (who would collaborate again on The Third Man) create images of stunning depth for this fierce, spiritual depiction of a man’s ultimate confrontation with himself.
Special Features
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with British cinema scholar John Hill, author of Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics
- Postwar Poetry, a new short documentary about the film
- New interview with music scholar Jeff Smith about composer William Alwyn and his score
- Home, James, a 1972 documentary featuring actor James Mason revisiting his hometown
- Radio adaptation of the film from 1952, starring Mason and Dan O’Herlihy
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith
New cover by Eric Skillman
Special Features
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with British cinema scholar John Hill, author of Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics
- Postwar Poetry, a new short documentary about the film
- New interview with music scholar Jeff Smith about composer William Alwyn and his score
- Home, James, a 1972 documentary featuring actor James Mason revisiting his hometown
- Radio adaptation of the film from 1952, starring Mason and Dan O’Herlihy
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith
New cover by Eric Skillman
Cast
- James Mason
- Johnny McQueen
- Robert Newton
- Lukey
- Kathleen Ryan
- Kathleen Sullivan
- Cyril Cusack
- Pat
- F. J. McCormick
- Shell
- William Hartnell
- Fencie
- Fay Compton
- Rosie
- Denis O'Dea
- Inspector
- W. G. Fay
- Father Tom
- Maureen Delaney
- Theresa O’Brien
- Elwyn Brook-Jones
- Tober
- Robert Beatty
- Dennis
- Dan O'Herilhy
- Nolan
- Kitty Kirwan
- Grannie
- Beryl Measor
- Maudie
- Roy Irving
- Murphy
- Joseph Tomelty
- Gin Jimmy
- Arthur Hambling
- Tom
- Ann Clery
- Maureen
- Eddie Byrne
- Policeman
Credits
- Director
- Carol Reed
- Produced by
- Carol Reed
- Associate producer
- Phil C. Samuel
- Screenplay
- F. L. Green
- Screenplay
- R. C. Sherriff
- Based on the novel by
- F. L. Green
- Director of photography
- Robert Krasker
- Editor
- Fergus McDonell
- Music composed by
- William Alwyn
- Conducted by
- Muir Mathieson
- Played by
- The London Symphony Orchestra
- Production decor
- Roger Furse
- Art director
- Ralph Brinton
- Camera operator
- Russell Thomson
- Sound recordists
- A. Fisher
- Sound recordists
- Desmond Dew
- Sound editor
- Harry Miller
- Production manager
- Frank Bevis
- Assistant director
- Mark Evans
- Continuity
- Olga Brooks
- Backings
- E. Lindegaard
- Irish advisers
- Cecil Ford
- Irish advisers
- Joseph Tomelty
- Special effects
- Stanley Grant
- Special effects
- Bill Warrington
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