The Lost Man

IMDb link: 0064602
IMDb rating: 6 (240 votes)
Genres: Crime, Drama, Romance
Director: Sidney Poitier, Robert Alan Aurthur
Cast: Michael Tolan, Al Freeman Jr., Joanna Shimkus and others

Release date: 11 Jul 1969
Release year: 1969
Runtime: 122 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: robbery gone awry, neo noir, robbery, color remake of black and white film, race relations, remake, based on novel, struggle, police brutality, escape

Plot:

Former U.S. Army lieutenant Jason Higgs (Sidney Poitier) who, after becoming a black militant during the 1960s Black Reveolutionary movement, is wounded when he pulls a payroll heist to help imprisoned "brothers" and has to hide from the police. Social worker Cathy Ellis (Joanna Shimkus) falls in love with Higgs while helping him elude capture. Loosely based on the 1947 Carol Reed film "Odd Man Out."

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