The Lost Man is a 1969 American

United States

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 film, written and directed by Robert Alan Aurthur

Robert Alan Aurthur

Robert Alan Aurthur was an American screenwriter, director and TV producer.-Television:In the early years of television, he wrote for Studio One and then moved on to write episodes of Mister Peepers...

, loosely based on F.L. Green's novel Odd Man Out

Odd Man Out

Odd Man Out is a 1947 Anglo-Irish film noir directed by Carol Reed, starring James Mason, and is based on a novel of the same name by F. L. Green.-Plot:The film's opening intertitle reads:...

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Plot summary

Former US Army lieutnant Jason Higgs (Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier

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) who, after becoming a black militant during the 1960s Black Revolutionary Movement, is wounded as 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.

External links

• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064602/The Lost Man Internet Movie Database
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