On its visual appeal in February 1947 the Sunday Chronicle referred to as Odd guy Out "the most sensible movie of all time." yet now not all people agreed. Edgar Anstey within the Documentary information Letter thought the movie used to be morbid and regretted its loss of an upbeat social message.
Odd guy Out recounts the previous few hours within the lifetime of an IRA guy at the run after being wounded in a disastrous theft. Johnny roams the streets of Belfast one step prior to the police until eventually he's eventually gunned down. regardless of its environment, the movie is extra taken with the metaphysical and ethical dimensions of Johnny's plight than with the politics of eire. notwithstanding Johnny is consistently middle degree, the movie adopts an strangely indifferent stance in the direction of him. Dai Vaughan describes with nice precision how the movie offers Johnny's expanding isolation and hopelessness in a chain of brilliantly staged scenes.
The movie united significant figures of British cinema on the top in their powers. The severe good fortune of Odd guy Out propelled James Mason to Hollywood. Carol Reed, clean from nice popularity of The Stars glance Down and The means Ahead, was once purely years clear of The 3rd Man. Their collaboration in Odd guy Out marked one of many excessive issues of postwar British cinema.