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Joe Stefanos arrives in Bridgeport, California, a rural mountain town, seeking Jeff Bailey, who owns a local gas station. Joe meets The Kid, Jeff's deaf-mute employee and friend, and asks him about Jeff's whereabouts. Meanwhile, Jeff is fishing with Ann Miller and they are in love.
May 15, 2017 · We see the story in flashback, with Jeff narrating, but through Ann’s eyes. And it’s ultimately the account of his love for another woman. Out of the Past then becomes almost another movie, with twists and turns, double-crosses and a convoluted story to rival The Big Sleep, with the poetry of its shadowy scenes and minor characters. It ...
Jul 18, 2004 · Jeff takes Ann along on the all-night drive to Tahoe, using the trip to tell her his story — his real name, his real past, how he tracked Kathie Moffat to Mexico and fell in love with her. (“And then I saw her, coming out of the sun, and I knew why Whit didn’t care about that 40 grand.”)
- Out of The Past
- The Evolution of Kathie Moffatt as A Femme Fatale
- Moral Ambiguity
- In Conclusion
The mysterious man with the past neighbors and acquaintances in a small town gossip about, Jeff Bailey is suddenly plucked from the little California town of Bridgeport. He has done all he can to escape his past working for gambler Whit (Kirk Douglas) to track down his girlfriend Kathie Moffatt. She absconded to Mexico with $40,000 of Whit’s money ...
The first stage of the evolution of Kathie Moffatt as the story’s femme fatale is rooted in Jeff’s memories of her. Jeff remembers the hot, steamy, moon-light filled nights with her in Acapulco, as he recounts the whole story through a series of flashbacks to his current girlfriend Ann (Virginia Huston) as they drive from Bridgeport to Lake Tahoe t...
The second stage of the evolution of Kathie Moffatt is marked by Jeff’s ex-partner, Jeff Fisher (Steve Brodie), finding the couple out somewhere in California. He breaks in and starts a fist-fight with Jeff over Whit’s missing $40,000 and Kathie fatally shoots him. Jeff tries to explain to her that she didn’t have to do that, but ultimately just bu...
Out of the Paststands the test of seventy years as a pioneering look at the femme fatale in all her amoral glory. She is pure fatal, predatory beauty and like the hapless men she bewitches, we cannot take our eyes off her. Her evolution from innocent to a more morally ambiguous woman is underscored beautifully by the cinematography and costuming, a...
- Wess Haubrich
The narrative features a combination of linear and flashback storytelling, and introduces the character of Jeff Bailey, a former private investigator who fled from New York after falling in love with Kathie, a girl he was hired to track down by an influential businessman called Whit.
In a small town in California, the mysterious Jeff Bailey owns a small gas station and is in love with a local named Ann. When a stranger just arrived in town meets him, Jeff is ordered to travel to meet the powerful criminal Whit Sterling.
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Jul 13, 2004 · After the private eye (Mitchum) finds the girlfriend (Jane Greer at her most poutily seductive) in Mexico, the two of them run away to San Francisco together. But the mobster who originally hired...
