Robert Beatty
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Willa and her clan are the last of the Faeran, an ancient race of forest people who have lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for as long as the trees have grown there. But as crews of newly arrived humans start cutting down great swaths of the forest she loves, she is helpless to stop them. How can she fight the destroyers of the forest and their powerful machines? When Willa discovers a mysterious dark hollow filled with strange and beautiful creatures,...
9) Odd Man Out
Description
Set in postwar Belfast, this British film noir follows Johnny McQueen (James Mason), the wounded leader of an Irish nationalist group, as he attempts to evade police after a failed robbery. As Johnny navigates the city’s dark alleys and encounters various characters, his struggle for survival becomes increasingly desperate. Directed by Carol Reed and based on the novel by F. L. Green.
10) Odd man out
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Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed's psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason as Johnny McQueen, a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he seeks refuge throughout the city, while the woman he loves (Kathleen Ryan) searches for him among the shadows.




