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Out of the Past is a film that launched Robert Mitchum’s career and his portrayal of the laconic, indifferent ex-private eye with an air of an experienced man nothing could possibly surprise, consciously treading along the path of his self-destruction, set a new standard. However, he landed the part only after Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield ...
rules the day. In Jacques Tourneur’s “Out of the Past” — one of the greatest noirs, among the most unsparing and the most bleakly beautiful — the femme fatale is actually the femme domestique. Robert Mitchum’s Jeff Markham has escaped a crooked past to build a new life as a me-chanic in a small, placid town. There he’s
Synopsis. OUT of the Sun, OUT of the Moonlight, OUT of the Past. Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, California. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has a secret past, and when a mysterious stranger arrives in town, Jeff is forced to return to the dark world he had tried to ...
Jan 4, 2016 · Out of the Past is a dark, twisty film that struck critics and audiences as an especially dynamic and gripping movie when it premiered in 1947.. In Bosley Crowther’s review in The New York Times, he wrote that “…this story of an ex-private detective who is shanghaied from a quiet, prosaic life to get involved with his old criminal associates is intensely fascinating for a time.
Jul 1, 2014 · Jeff Bailey (Mitchum) is quite content to live in Bridgeport, California, run a gas station and court girlfriend Ann (a much subdued, close to bland Virginia Huston), and try to forget his past. While fishing with her, he sees, on a distant knoll, his deaf friend, “The Kid” (Dickie Moore), signal some kind of warning.
Out of the Past - Metacritic. 1947. Approved. RKO Radio Pictures. 1 h 37 m. Summary 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. Crime. Drama.
