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 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. 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.
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.
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’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.
Dec 16, 2019 · Tourneur. French-born Jacques Tourneur did his best work in the US. He’s the son of director Maurice Tourneur (who co-directed the 1920 The Last of the Mohicans which is really good amongst other things).
The French movie director Jacques Tourneur (1904 – 1977), son of director and screenwriter Maurice, who came to Hollywood as a boy in 1913, then permanently in 1934, and was often addressed there by the anglicized form Jack Turner, is probably best known for classic noirs such as Out of the Past (1947) and horrors such as Cat People (1942 ...
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...
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.
