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{{short description|1947 film by Carol Reed}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Odd Man Out
| image          = Odd-man-out-poster.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Carol Reed]]
| producer       = Carol Reed
| writer         = [[R. C. Sherriff]]
| based_on       = {{based on|''[[Odd Man Out (novel)|Odd Man Out]]''<br>1945 novel|[[F. L. Green]]}}
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* [[James Mason]]
* [[Robert Newton]]
* [[Cyril Cusack]]
* [[F. J. McCormick]]
* [[William Hartnell]]
* [[Fay Compton]]
* [[Denis O'Dea]]
* [[William Fay|W. G. Fay]]
* [[Elwyn Brook-Jones]]
* [[Maureen Delany|Maureen Delaney]]
* [[Robert Beatty]]
* [[Kathleen Ryan]]
}}
| music          = [[William Alwyn]]
| cinematography = [[Robert Krasker]]
| editing        = [[Fergus McDonell]]
| studio         = [[Two Cities Films]]
| distributor    = [[General Film Distributors]]
| released       = {{Film date|1947|01|31|df=y|United Kingdom|ref1=<ref>{{cite news|work=[[The Times]]|title=Odd Man Out|page=4|date=31 January 1947}}</ref>}}
| runtime        = 116 minutes
| language       = English
| country        = United Kingdom
| budget         = >[[United States dollar|US]]$1 million<ref>{{cite news|title=Thrill-type tales choice of British|date=7 July 1946|work=Los Angeles Times|id={{ProQuest|165714120}}}}</ref>
| gross          = US$1.25 million (US rentals)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/variety168-1947–10#page/n131/mode/1up|title=Variety (October 1947)|work=archive.org|access-date=20 April 2016}}</ref>
}}
'''''Odd Man Out''''' is a 1947 British [[film noir]] directed by [[Carol Reed]], and starring [[James Mason]], [[Robert Newton]], [[Cyril Cusack]], and [[Kathleen Ryan]]. Set in [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]], it follows a wounded [[Nationalist Party (Ireland)|Nationalist]] leader who attempts to evade police in the aftermath of a robbery. It is based on the 1945 [[Odd Man Out (novel)|novel of the same name]] by [[F. L. Green]].<ref name="NYT">{{cite news |last=Crowther |first=Bosley |author-link=Bosley Crowther |date=24 April 1947 |title=Odd Man Out (1947) ' Odd Man Out,' British Film in Which James Mason Again Is the Chief Menace, Has Its Premiere at Loew's Criterion |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=950DE0D6173CE13BBC4C51DFB266838C659EDE}}</ref> 

The film received the first [[BAFTA Award for Best British Film]], and was also nominated for the [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]]. Filmmaker [[Roman Polanski]] repeatedly cited ''Odd Man Out'' as his favourite film.

''Odd Man Out'' follows the Mason character "on an anguished journey through the alleys of Belfast that visually presages Harry Lime's shadowy flight through the sewers of Vienna" in Reed's 1949 film ''[[The Third Man]]''.{{Sfn|Connelly|2012|p=147}}