Out of the Past (1947) (2024)

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1947

Directed by Jacques Tourneur

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 escape.

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Cast

Robert Mitchum Jane Greer Kirk Douglas Paul Valentine Virginia Huston Rhonda Fleming Richard Webb Steve Brodie Dickie Moore Ken Niles Mary Field Oliver Blake Harry Hayden Theresa Harris Frank Wilcox John Kellogg Brooks Benedict Homer Dickenson Mike Lally Bill Wallace Eumenio Blanco Victor Romito Wesley Bly Mildred Boyd James Bush James Conaty Alphonso DuBois Rudy Germane Adda Gleason Show All…

DirectorDirector

Jacques Tourneur

ProducerProducer

Warren Duff

WriterWriter

Daniel Mainwaring

Original WriterOriginal Writer

Daniel Mainwaring

EditorEditor

Samuel E. Beetley

CinematographyCinematography

Nicholas Musuraca

Assistant DirectorsAsst. Directors

Harry Mancke Earl Harper

Additional DirectingAdd. Directing

Lynn Shores

Executive ProducerExec. Producer

Additional PhotographyAdd. Photography

Robert De Grasse

Art DirectionArt Direction

Albert S. D'Agostino Jack Okey

Set DecorationSet Decoration

Darrell Silvera John McCarthy Jr.

Special EffectsSpecial Effects

Russell A. Cully Linwood G. Dunn

Visual EffectsVisual Effects

Linwood G. Dunn

ComposerComposer

Roy Webb

SoundSound

Clem Portman Francis M. Sarver

Costume DesignCostume Design

Edward Stevenson

MakeupMakeup

Gordon Bau Mel Berns

Studio

RKO Radio Pictures

Country

USA

Language

English

Alternative Titles

Build My Gallows High, Retorno al pasado, De greep van het verleden, От миналото, Fanget af fortiden, Varjot menneisyydestä, La griffe du passé, Αμαρτωλοί και δολοφόνοι, Kísért a múlt, Le catene della colpa, Czlowiek z przeszloscia, Din trecut, Skuggor ur det förflutna, Fuga ao Passado, Fuga do Passado, Goldenes Gift, かこをのがれて, Keçmişdən Qaçış, 과거로부터, La Griffe du passé, 漩涡之外, O Arrependido, סיפור מהעבר, Из прошлого, Geçmişten Kaçış, Człowiek z przeszłością, З минулого, Pryč od minulosti, 過去を逃れて, Retorn al passat, 漩渦之外

Genres

Thriller Crime

Themes

Thrillers and murder mysteries Crime, drugs and gangsters Noir and dark crime dramas Intriguing and suspenseful murder mysteries Twisted dark psychological thriller Heists and thrilling action Gritty crime and ruthless gangsters Show All…

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27 Nov 1947
  • Out of the Past (1947) (3)USA

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25 Nov 1947
  • Out of the Past (1947) (4)USA

27 Nov 1947
  • Out of the Past (1947) (5)Denmark15

01 Oct 1954
  • Out of the Past (1947) (6)Austria12

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Out of the Past (1947) (7)Austria
01 Oct 1954
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Out of the Past (1947) (8)Denmark
27 Nov 1947
  • Theatrical15Ukendt biografudgivelse
Out of the Past (1947) (9)USA
25 Nov 1947
  • TheatricalNew York City, NewYork
27 Nov 1947
  • Theatrical limitedSan Francisco,California

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  • Review by Branson Reese

    The first thing that happens in this movie is a guy throws a cigarette at a deaf kid. About a minute later Robert Mitchum throws a cigarette at that guy. That’s just what it’s like in the economy of cigarettes. Sometimes you’re up and sometimes you’re down.

  • Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★½ 9

    I was supposed to watch this for Cinema 101 in my first semester of college and for some reason skipped the screening. I was an idiot.

  • Review by theshrillest ★★★★½ 3

    the hays code cut from the kiss on the shoulder to the door swinging open in the wind to the rain outside is one of the most sensational things I've ever seen.

  • Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★★½ 8

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    81/100

    Fascinated by the way Tourneur consistently chooses to visually de-emphasize dramatic moments. When Kathie unexpectedly shoots Fisher (off-camera; we just hear the shot), there's no cut to an insert of the gun, as would have been commonplace at the time. Kathie isn't even still pointing the gun in the subsequent wide shot. The hand holding it is dangling at her waist; you have to actively look for it. Likewise, her reappearance at Whit's house is orchestrated with startling casualness, as if she were the maid coming in to refill everyone's water glasses. She just strolls into the frame from a distance, with zero fanfare, as if showing up weren't the single biggest plot twist this movie has to offer.…

  • Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★★ 2

    Wandering the frame in search of a picture. History doomed to repeat itself. "Build my gallows high, baby."

  • Review by davidehrlich ★★★★½ 6

    true or false: this film is better than a woman's touch?

  • Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½ 3

    89/100

    For a film so indelibly involved in the lost rivers of memory, Out of the Past confounds because of its ever-present feeling within the now. Every frame feels like the mistakes and the pain of the past will reach out and strangle our main characters, but that never stops the main mystery from propelling forward with impeccable fluidity. The chemistry between Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer is some of the finest to ever emerge out of the film-noir genre, with the two crafting conversations of moving honesty and sparkling sensuality.

    The atmosphere that they're surrounded in, with Nicholas Musuraca conjuring haunting imagery as DP, only cements the fact that Jacques Tourneur was a master of looming terror. Out of the Past, with its hard-boiled corruption and its sexy otherworldly rhythms, is quite possibly the finest horror film that Jacques ever directed. It is film-noir at its most crystalline and pure, and you won't soon forget it.

  • Review by ScreeningNotes ★★★★★ 2

    "Which place was your favorite?"
    "This one right here."
    "I bet you say that to all the places."

  • Review by Neil Bahadur ★★★★★ 1

    "Spontaneity? Bullshit!" - Daniele Huillet

    Of the Tourneur films I've seen, each one drops you into the movie with such little exposition that it feels like we're watching the ending. Tourneur will then choose to exploit your anxiety about the fact that you have absolutely no idea what is going on. Unlike most of his work, it's easy to forget that this is a conventional structure for Tourneur, because as convoluted as it is, at least it has a plot. But JT uses this convolution to his advantage: we sense the feeling of "fatedness" common in all of his other work. Here it's by Mitchum constantly being a pawn in something he (and we) do not fully understand. There is…

  • Review by kailey ★★★★ 10

    robert mitchum was a major fucking babe.

    this is my truth and i shall SPEAK it.

  • Review by Paul Elliott ★★★★★ 2

    Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past is quite simply one of the most outstanding films within the film noir genre. Yet strangely, Tourneur is not more widely regarded when film noirs are discussed despite directing three solid examples of the style within four years during the nineteen forties. He is often merely reflected upon for his B-movies atRKO, including the distinguishedCat People and I Walked with a Zombie; however, he undoubtedly was one of the most outstanding genre directors of his day, and even turned his hand to a few westerns.

    This is a well-executed and compelling film, with remarkably and cleverly concise dialogue which is both playful and highly quotable. It's built around the idea that sometimes there's no…

  • Review by Channing Pomeroy ★★★★★ 5

    If you ask me what’s the greatest noir, I’ll automatically answer Out of the Past. This is a pretty standard opinion among the cognoscenti. But I’d love some day to be able to properly articulate why I think it is. I suspect it’s the alchemy of Jacques Tourneur’s direction and Nicholas Musuraca’s cinematography plus Frank Fenton’s and James M. Cain’s catgut-tight dialogue that encapsulates the ineluctable fatalism at the core of film noir:

    Jane Greer: “Is there any way to win?”

    Robert Mitchum: “There’s a way to lose more slowly,”

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