Out of the Past
1947
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Mini Bio. 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.
Best Jacques Tourneur Films – Wrapping Up. Jacques Tourneur was a highly influential director in the film noir and horror genres, known for his atmospheric and moody style, complex characters, and innovative use of lighting and shadow. Some of his best films include:
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.
Jan 3, 2019 · The son of Maurice Tourneur, one of early French cinema’s preeminent directors, Jacques Tourneur ranks among the most fascinating yet most elusive filmmakers of his time. After working as an editor for his father and a director of shorts and B-features at MGM in his adoptive America, Tourneur eventually found a home in Hollywood with the ...
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.
Everett. 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...
FSLC announces Jacques Tourneur: Fearmaker, the largest New York City retrospective in decades, December 14-January 3
