Out of the Past
1947
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Jacques Tourneur (French:; November 12, 1904 – December 19, 1977) was a French-American filmmaker, active during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He was known as an auteur of stylish and atmospheric genre films, many of them for RKO Pictures , including the horror films Cat People , I Walked with a Zombie , and The Leopard Man , and the classic ...
Jacques Tourneur. Born in Paris in 1904, Tourneur went to Hollywood with his father, director Maurice Tourneur around 1913. He started out as a script clerk and editor for his father, then graduated to such jobs as directing shorts (often with the pseudonym Jack Turner), both in France and America.
May 8, 2024 · Jacques Tourneur was a French American filmmaker of broad range known for horror, film noirs, and westerns. Tourneur was the son of one of French cinema’s preeminent directors, Maurice Tourneur, who made more than 90 pictures, more than half of them in the United States between 1914 and 1926.
Jacques Tourneur’s films are known for their atmospheric style, moody lighting, and subtle storytelling. He was a master of creating tension and suspense, and his films often explored themes of fear, the supernatural, and the unknown.
Jacques Tourneur. Director: Cat People. Born in Paris in 1904, Tourneur went to Hollywood with his father, director Maurice Tourneur around 1913. He started out as a script clerk and editor for his father, then graduated to such jobs as directing shorts (often with the pseudonym Jack Turner), both in France and America.
Jacques Tourneur (also known as Jack Turner; November 12, 1904 – December 19, 1977) was a French film director known for the classic film noir Out of the Past and a series of low-budget horror films he made for RKO Studios, including Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie and The Leopard Man.
Nov 14, 2018 · Jacques Tourneur, USA, 1953, 79m. Tourneur’s mastery of mood and unsettling ambiguity transform a diverting jungle adventure into something resembling existential horror.
Born in France in 1904, Jacques Tourneur moved to Hollywood in 1934 and, as a director of low-budget genre films in the forties and fifties, became one of the era’s most defiantly perceptive...
Sep 22, 2016 · J acques Tourneur and Val Lewton’s legendary partnership began in the mid-thirties at MGM under the supervision of David O. Selznick, but it wasn’t until the 1942 RKO film Cat People that their chemistry produced an original and highly influential aesthetic.
Aug 30, 2002 · by Ed Gonzalez. August 30, 2002. Some consider the three low-budget films Jacques Tourneur made with iconic producer Val Lewton—head of RKO’s horror unit from 1942 until his untimely death in 1952—the greatest works of the B-movie genre, but many theorists remain hesitant to use the auteurist model when discussing the late director.
