Robert Mitchum
Jeff
Search results
Out of the Past: Directed by Jacques Tourneur. With Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming. 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.
- (40K)
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Jacques Tourneur
- 1947-12
Out of the Past (billed in the United Kingdom as Build My Gallows High) is a 1947 American film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas. The film was adapted by Daniel Mainwaring (using the pseudonym Geoffrey Homes) from his 1946 novel Build My Gallows High (also written as Homes), [1] with ...
- November 25, 1947 (USA)
- Warren Duff
Jul 18, 2004 · "Out of the Past" (1947) is one of the greatest of all film noirs, the story of a man who tries to break with his past and his weakness and start over again in a town, with a new job and a new girl. The movie stars Robert Mitchum , whose weary eyes and laconic voice, whose very presence as a violent man wrapped in indifference, made him an ...
People also ask
What happened in out of the past?
What is out of the past known for?
Is out of the past a good movie?
Who are the actors in out of the past?
Out of the Past is most often remembered for capitalizing on Mitchum's uniquely laconic sexual allure and for transforming the actor - in his second starring role after Story of G.I. Joe (1945) - into an instant star. Though the role was initially offered to Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield and Dick Powell, all of whom turned it down, the gritty ...
Synopsis. Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum) seems to be a mundane gas station owner in Bridgeport, California. He is dating local girl Ann Miller (Virginia Huston) and lives a quiet life, but is secretive about his past. A stranger passing through recognizes Jeff.
Out of the Past, American film noir, released in 1947, that is widely recognized as a quintessential example of the genre. Jeff Bailey (played by Robert Mitchum) appears to be an ordinary gas station attendant in a small California town. When he is called to a meeting with the slick gangster Whit.
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 escape.
