Odd man out / Janus Films ; J. Arthur Rank presents a Two Cities film ; F. Del Giudice in charge of production ; Carol Reed's production ; screen play by F.L. Green and R.C. Sherriff ; produced and directed by Carol Reed.
Edition:
Two-DVD special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
2 videodiscs (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (10 unnumbered pages)
James Mason, Robert Newton, Kathleen Ryan, Cyril Cusack, F.J. McCormick, William Hartnell, Fay Compton, Denis O'Dea, W.G. Fay. Originally released as a motion picture in 1947. Special features: Postwar poetry, a new short documentary about the film; New interview with British cinema scholar John Hill; 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 of Huddersfield, England; Radio adaptation of the film from 1952, starring Mason and Dan O'Herlihy; Plus: an essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith.
Contents:
disc one. Odd man out (feature film) -- disc two. [Special features].
Summary:
Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed's psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason as Johnny McQueen, 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.
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