Frederick Laurence Green, F. L. Green, was a British author who had 14 titles published between 1934 and 1952, and is best known for his 1945 novel, "Odd Man Out", and film of the same name, a British film noir set in an unnamed Northern Irish city and directed by Carol Reed, released in which year?
Odd Man Out Odd Man Out is a 1947 British film noir set in an unnamed Northern Irish city and directed by Carol Reed. It is based on the novel by F. L. Green and stars James Mason and Robert Newton.
Painted Boats Painted Boats (US titles The Girl on the Canal or The Girl of the Canal) is a black-and-white British film directed by Charles Crichton and released by Ealing Studios in 1945. "Painted Boats", one of the lesser-known Ealing films of the period, is brief (63 minutes long), uses a little-known cast and has a slight storyline. It is however considered significant by waterways enthusiasts as a fictionalised documentary, providing a rare extensive filmic depiction of a long-gone way of life on England's working canal system in the 1940s. The narration was by Louis MacNeice, including some verse specially written to suit the onscreen action, most notably the sequence in which the narrow boat is being 'legged' through one of the tunnels.