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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like The Lost Man, it turns Black radical politics into a tense fugitive-style thriller, balancing clandestine action with an urgent, disillusioned view of American institutions.
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Why this pick
Its intimate portrait of a militant group under pressure shares The Lost Man’s tragic political intensity, moral fracture lines, and mounting sense that escape is narrowing.
03
Why this pick
Poitier’s hunted revolutionary finds a powerful counterpart in this documentary-textured study of insurgency, surveillance, and escalating state violence, staged with bracing immediacy.
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Why this pick
This is another late-1960s drama where idealism collides with police power; it shares the era’s raw political atmosphere and concern for the human cost of resistance.
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Why this pick
Its Chicago unrest and semi-documentary visual style make political turmoil feel immediate, matching The Lost Man’s period texture and its uneasy proximity between observers and struggle.
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01 / THE STORY
Former US Army lieutenant Jason Higgs (Sidney Poitier), after becoming a black militant during the 1960s Black Revolutionary Movement, is wounded as he pulls a payroll heist to help imprisoned brothers, and has to hide from the police. Social worker Cathy Ellis (Joanna Shimkus) falls in love with Higgs while helping him elude capture.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Insp. Carl Hamilton
Photographer
Sally Carter
Orville Turner
Reggie Page
Jason Higgs
Dennis Lawrence
Barnes