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    Lost Man, The (1969)

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    Former US Army lieutenant Jason Higgs (Sidney Poitier) has organised a payroll robbery of a factory. He will give the proceeds to the families of black demonstrators who are now in jail.

    The plan miscarries and a policeman is shot, and the rest of the film concerns the hunt for Jason and his attempts to escape with the help of a white girl friend (Joanna Shimkus).

    The merciless onslaught of the police on a peaceful demonstration by black men and women is properly horrifying, but the political and emotional problems never get worked out and Jason – for all that he is played by Sidney Poitier and was presumably meant to be a kind of martyred Robin Hood figure – is no more than a stupid thug.

    There is a particularly nasty scene in which the dying Jason is photographed by an ambitious newsman.

    Al Freeman Jr. is good, as always, as a non-violent friend.

    Jason Higgs
    Sidney Poitier
    Cathy Ellis
    Joanna Shimkus
    Dennis Lawrence
    Al Freeman Jr.
    Inspector Carl Hamilton
    Michael Tolan
    Eddie Moxie
    Leon Bibb
    Barnes
    Richard Dysart
    Photographer
    David Steinberg
    Sally Carter
    Beverly Todd
    Orville Turner
    Paul Winfield
    Reggie Page
    Bernie Hamilton
    Ronald
    Richard Anthony Williams
    Police Captain
    Dolph Sweet
    Terry
    Arnold Williams
    Theresa
    Virginia Capers
    Diane Lawrence
    Vonetta McGee
    Warren
    Frank Marth
    Miss Harrison
    Maxine Stuart
    Plainclothesman
    George Tyne
    Grandma
    Paulene Myers
    Willie
    Lee Weaver
    Miller
    Morris Erby
    Teddy
    Doug Johnson
    Minister
    Lincoln Kilpatrick

    Director
    Robert Alan Aurthur

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