The Lost Man - There is no going back
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Lost Man - There is no going back |
| Original title | The Lost Man |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 122 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Robert Alan Aurthur |
| script | Robert Alan Aurthur based on the novel "Odd Man Out" by Frederick Lawrence Green |
| production |
Edward Muhl , Melville Tucker |
| music | Quincy Jones |
| camera | Gerry Finnerman |
| cut | Edward Mann |
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The Lost Man (Original title: The Lost Man ) is an American full color film from 1969 directed by Robert Alan Aurthur . He also wrote the script. It is based on the Northern Ireland novel "The Terrorist (Odd Man Out)" by Frederick Lawrence Green . For this film, the plot has been moved to the milieu of the American black power movement . The leading roles are starring Sidney Poitier and Joanna Shimkus . The work had its world premiere on June 25, 1969 in New York City. The first time the film was released in Germany was on September 5, 1969.
action
Black Jason is planning a robbery on a bank. With the stolen money he wants to support the families of black comrades in prison for better living conditions. The coup, carried out behind the camouflage by a demonstration in front of striking buildings in the city of New York, succeeds, but not quite according to plan. Jason shoots a bank clerk and is followed by the police as a murderer. With the help of a white girl who sympathizes with blacks without condoning their violence and who loves Jason, he can go into hiding for a while. Already hit to death, the capture shortly before the rescue ship in New York harbor is inevitable. Then the girl who fled with him deliberately triggers a volley from the police's weapons with an untimely shot, which kills them both.
criticism
The Protestant film observer distributes both praise and criticism: “A well-made crime film using the racial conflict in the USA as the current backdrop [...]. Despite the above-average presentation for the genre because of the only external amalgamation with one of the most serious problems of American society, it is a somewhat ambiguous entertainment film for adults. ”The lexicon of international film comes to the assessment that the work is a technically experienced staged A star-studded thriller that "adorns commercial action film patterns with political backgrounds".
literature
- FL Green: The Terrorist (Original Title: Odd Man Out ). German by Alfred Dunkel. Heyne, Munich 1974, 156 pp., ISBN 3-453-82002-9
See also
Outcast , a 1947 British fiction film directed by Carol Reed based on the same literary source and set in the original locations in Northern Ireland.
Web links
- The Lost Man - There is no way back in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 403/1969, p. 402
- ↑ Lexikon des Internationale Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 2322