Out of the Past
Jacques Tourneur / US, 1947 / 97 min.
A cunning criminal hires a private detective to trace his sweetheart who has gone missing. Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer play their parts to perfection following the fatalistic laws of the film noir.
Kirk Douglas is the gangster, Jane Greer the femme fatale and Robert Mitchum the private eye in a doom-laden tale that is gripping from beginning to end.
Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past is regarded as of the quintessential film noir. Tourneur (Cat People, Curse of the Demon) chose Daniel Mainwaring’s pulp novel Build My Gallows High for the script. Mainwaring himself wrote the screenplay under the pseudonym Geoffrey Homes – writers with leftist sympathies were blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Director
Jacques Tourneur
Production year
1947
Country
US
Original title
Out of the Past
Length
97 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
NLD
Format
35mm
Part of
Film Noir
Rain-drenched streets, curls of cigarette smoke, and men with a dark past. An inescapable fate and a femme fatale, sly and sexually independent. This summer Eye is presenting an extended programme of classic film noir, featuring masterpieces such as The Third Man and In a Lonely Place starring Humphrey Bogart. With vintage 35mm prints and newly restored works.
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