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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. The film was adapted by Daniel Mainwaring (using the pseudonym Geoffrey Homes) from his 1946 novel Build My Gallows High (also written as Homes), [ 1 ] with uncredited revisions by Frank Fenton and James M ...
Jul 18, 2004 · Out of the Past. Drama. 97 minutes ‧ 1947. Roger Ebert. July 18, 2004. 7 min read. Most crime movies begin in the present and move forward, but film noir coils back into the past. The noir hero is doomed before the story begins — by fate, rotten luck, or his own flawed character. Crime movies sometimes show good men who go bad.
- 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
Small-town gas pumper Jeff Bailey's mysterious past catches up with him one day when he's ordered to meet with gambler Whit Sterling. En route to the meeting, he tells girlfriend Ann his story. Flashback: Once, Jeff was a private eye hired by Sterling to find his mistress Kathie, who shot Whit and absconded with $40,000.
Out of the Past (1947), (aka Build My Gallows High, its title in Britain), is one of the greatest, multi-layered film noirs of all time. The downbeat screenplay was based on Geoffrey Homes' (a pseudonym - his real name was Daniel Mainwaring) 1946 novel Build My Gallows High, a book that consciously imitated Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon ...
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Out of the Past is a film that launched Robert Mitchum’s career and his portrayal of the laconic, indifferent ex-private eye with an air of an experienced man nothing could possibly surprise, consciously treading along the path of his self-destruction, set a new standard. However, he landed the part only after Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield and Dick Powell decided to pass on the offer.
