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Out of the Past

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Out of the Past

Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum

A man is dragged back into his old life by a gangster and his moll.

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  • rubystevens
    June 12, 2009
    rubystevens
    the quintessential noir, a style that's had a huge influence on everyone from scorsese and tarantino to the coen brothers and david lynch, not to mention french new wave. robert mitchum gives his most perfect lethargic and world-weary performance
  • pier007
    May 2, 2009
    pier007
    Mesmerizing build up of romance and tension by the snappy and captivating pen of Daniel Mainwaring (as Geoffrey Homes) and Jacques Tourneur's keen eye. They draw a vigorous and pulsating tale of a man with a tormented past that encloses emotional and business related attachments,...( read more) murder and betrayal.
    Robert Mitchum is the man who passively awaits for a dreadful fate, not without scrutinizing and sabotaging the people who damaged him first.
  • Jungian
    May 10, 2008
    Jungian
    A seminal film noir in all its dark and smokey, fatalistic glory.
  • groaningbitch
    February 1, 2008
    groaningbitch
    "out of the past" is one mighty example of the old proverb "women are not to be trusted"...jane greer is the incarnation of classic noir femme fatale who backstabs men for profits and survival, a giant rotten swelling beneath her strikingly angelic beauty.

    jeff bailey(mitchum)...( read more) is a private eye hired by mobster whit (kirk douglas) to retrack back his mistress kathey(greer) who shoots him four times then elope with $4000. as the moment bailey sees her, he's enchanted to her, so both of them together cheat whit to shelter upon the north for thier love-nest. unfortunately their traces are spotted that leades to one murder which also unravels the sordid darkside of kathey. then bailey recluses in some countryside to reform and seek a kind gentle woman as love companion until one day whit sends his sidekick for bailey....

    spontaneously all the men in "out of the past" are chain-smokers who transcend fume circles into enigmatic white clouds that might be an indication of their masochistic empheral doom. everywhere mitchum goes, he ignites a cigarette even at the crucial moment of robbing important documentary. maybe their choice of the woman is the best eloquent case of such chronical suicidal tendency which reflects on non-stop smokings.

    both bailey and whit (mitchum and douglas) are shrewd men with sharply fierce sight to see things thru, but they still select to embrace the defying perils, such as bailey knows whit wanna frame him, but he still goes for it; whit understands kathey is no good but he still want her back at any cost. they're tough guys with imperious confidence preferring to be surrounded with apparent danger, enjoying messing up with beautiful dame who is utterly no good just like boys like to play with firecracker even it might blow them off into pieces. jane greer would be the best pretty poison for these two extraordinarily cocky men.

    in one dialogue, greer tries to persuade mitchum into her faux innocence, mitchum simply replies "oh baby, i don't care!"...men in "out of the past" are prodigals stuck in their transient life philosophy under the adrenlined sensations for the dazzling sparks, always some case, some feud, some unexpected doublecross to settle, eventually mitchum's character explodes by the forthcoming curse of his tragic flaws.
  • kenstachnik
    September 23, 2007
    kenstachnik
    The director of Cat People strikes again with may be a perfect noir.
  • allformat
    October 8, 2009
    allformat
    Classic tale of a man's dark past catching up with him. A whirlpool of occurances and twists that left me a bit lost at parts. The cast was great though, and everyone performed extremely well.
  • ElCochran90
    September 20, 2009
    ElCochran90
    Undervalued noir with an intense climax and good development. I'm glad I found this.

    84/100
  • zdravkoduck
    July 30, 2009
    zdravkoduck
    Full of dames and retired gangsters Kirk Douglas and a pinball wizard. ME WANT MORE NOIR.
  • ralch
    June 12, 2009
    ralch
    Excelente film noir, aunque debió ser un poco más corto. Mitchum es una jodienda aquí. / Excellent film noir, though somewhat overlong. Mitchum is awesome here.
  • JexyMG
    June 11, 2009
    JexyMG
    Robert Mitchum..... cool.

    Mitchum is awesome in this, and after watching it, you wish that you were as cool as him. He's a pretty slick guy.
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