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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Film-Noir /
Romance /
Thriller /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Carol Reed
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Actors:
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Cyril Cusack,
William Hartnell,
Denis O'Dea,
Robert Newton,
Fay Compton,
F.J. McCormick,
W.G. Fay,
Maureen Delaney,
Elwyn Brook-Jones,
James Mason
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Duration:
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116 min.
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Rating:
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(7.9/10)89.5
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Plot Summary:
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Johnny McQueen, leader of a clandestine Irish group, has been hiding in the house of Kathleen and her mother, planning a hold-up that will provide his group with the funds needed to carry on with its activities. During the hold-up, things go sour: Johnny is wounded, cannot make it behindhand to the hideout, and disappears in the back-alleys of Belfast. Immediately, a large-scale man-hunt is launched, and the city is closely covered by the constabulary, whose chief is intent on capturing Johnny and the other members of the gang. Kathleen sets in default in search of Johnny.
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Odd Man Out
Along with The Third Man and A Man Exclusively, Odd Darbies Far-off is participation of Carol Reed's loose 'Man' trilogy. Since he also made The Ceaseless Homo sapiens - the Laurence Harvey thriller, not the Arnie Stephen King motion picture - and adapted Graham Greene's Our Gazabo In Havana, one could argue that Ollie's uncle Carol in actuality composed a 'Man' quintet. In all events, while these other movies give birth to nothing but a noun in mean, the three pictures Reed produced between 1947 and 1953 share distinct similarities regardless of being lay at odd times in strange countries. While A Mortals Alone takes place in a Berlin sandwiched between the Sponsor World War and East-West segregation and The Third Man's set amidst the rubble of war-torn Vienn...
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