Question: 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?

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Odd Man Out (disambiguation): Odd Man Out is a 1947 British film directed by Carol Reed and starring James Mason.

The Third Man: The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene.  It stars Joseph Cotten, Valli (Alida Valli), Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard.  The film takes place in post-World-War-II Vienna.  It centres on Holly Martins, an American who is given a job in Vienna by his friend Harry Lime, but when Holly arrives in Vienna he gets the news that Lime is dead.  Martins then meets with Lime's acquaintances in an attempt to investigate what he considers a suspicious death.

Carol Reed: Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director best known for "Odd Man Out" (1947), "The Fallen Idol" (1948) and "The Third Man" (1949).  For "Oliver! " (1968), he received the Academy Award for Best Director.

Midshipman Easy: Midshipman Easy is a 1935 British adventure film directed by Carol Reed and starring Hughie Green, Margaret Lockwood and Harry Tate.  The screenplay concerns a young man who runs away from home, joins the navy and goes to sea in the 1790s.  He rescues a captive woman from a Spanish ship and battles pirates and smugglers.  The film was based on the novel "Mr Midshipman Easy" (1836) by Frederick Marryat.

Ernst Deutsch: Ernst Deutsch, also known as Ernest Dorian (16 September 1890, Prague – 22 March 1969, Berlin), was an Austrian actor.  In 1916, his performance as the protagonist in the world première of Walter Hasenclever's Expressionist play "The Son" in Dresden was praised.  Deutsch also played the antihero Famulus in Paul Wegener's "" in 1920.  He is known by English-speaking audiences for his role as Baron Kurtz in Carol Reed's 1949 "film noir", "The Third Man".

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.

They Made Me a Fugitive: They Made Me a Fugitive (released in the US as I Became a Criminal) is a 1947 British film noir set in postwar England.

On the Night of the Fire: On the Night of the Fire, released in the United States as The Fugitive, is a 1939 British thriller, directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Ralph Richardson and Diana Wynyard.  The film is based on the novel of the same name by F. L. Green.  It was shot on location in Newcastle upon Tyne and was released shortly after the outbreak of World War II.  It is regarded as an early example of British film noir, with the kind of subject matter and filming style which fell completely out of favour during the war years – when British studios felt that cinemagoers would want either light entertainment and escapism or topical patriotic propaganda pieces – and would not be taken up again until the later 1940s.

The Fallen Idol (film): The Fallen Idol (also known as "The Lost Illusion") is a 1948 film directed by Carol Reed and based on the short story "The Basement Room", by Graham Greene.  The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director (Carol Reed) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Graham Greene), and won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film.

F. L. Green: Frederick Laurence Green (1902–1953) was a British author who had 14 titles published between 1934 and 1952.  He is best known for his 1945 novel, "Odd Man Out", which was filmed by Carol Reed, also as "Odd Man Out", in 1947.  The novel was also used as the basis of the 1969 Sidney Poitier movie "The Lost Man" (1969).

Supporting paragraphs: F. L. Green Odd Man Out
Answer: 1947