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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 ...
- Out of the Past (1947) “Out of the Past” is a 1947 film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas. The film tells the story of Jeff Bailey (Mitchum), a former private investigator who is drawn back into his dark past when he is hired by a powerful gangster to track down his mistress, Kathie Moffat (Greer).
- I Walked with a Zombie (1943) “I Walked with a Zombie” is a horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur and released in 1943. The film tells the story of a young nurse named Betsy Connell (played by Frances Dee), who is hired to care for the wife of a wealthy plantation owner on the Caribbean island of Saint Sebastian.
- Cat People (1942) “Cat People” is a 1942 horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur, with a screenplay by DeWitt Bodeen. The film follows the story of a Serbian immigrant woman, Irena Dubrovna (played by Simone Simon), who fears that she is a descendant of a race of people who can turn into panthers when emotionally aroused.
- Curse of the Demon (1957) “Curse of the Demon” is a British horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur and released in 1957. The film tells the story of an American psychologist, Dr. John Holden (Dana Andrews), who travels to England to attend a conference on the paranormal.
He has directed two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Cat People (1942) and Out of the Past (1947).
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THE RANKING FILMS OF Jacques Tourneur. 1. Out of the Past (1947) Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames.
1. Cat People (1942) Not Rated | 73 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller. 7.2. Rate. 85 Metascore. An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together. Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph.
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Department. 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.
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.
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