Odd Man Out (1947)
Genre: Dramas
Starring: James Mason, Kathleen Ryan, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack
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This may be Reed's most pretentious film, but it also happens to be one of his very best, beautifully capturing the poetry of a city at night.
Carol Reed has made his film with deliberation and care, and has achieved splendid teamwork from every member of the cast. Occasionally too intent on pointing his moral and adorning his tale, he has missed little in its telling.
Reed's take on the material is innovative, letting realism blur into an anaemic, soul-searching delirium. Camera trickery is used to mind-bending effect and Odd Man Out's hallucinatory tone is often astonishing.
a rich noir treat - and Mason has the acting chops to make even a rapidly fading, near mute half-corpse compelling to watch.
Suspense gives way to metaphor in a stark thriller that hints at the work to come from master Carol Reed.
Well-directed melodrama. Doesn't work on a 'tension' level, but is worth a watch.
Odd Man Out is a picture to see, to absorb in the darkness of the theatre and then go home and talk about.
Reed, one of Britain's finest directors, made his name with this haunting, lyrical masterpiece about a doomed fugitive.


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