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Out of the Past (1947)
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"Build my gallows high, baby"--just one of the quintessentially noir sentiments expressed by Robert Mitchum in this classic of the genre. Mitchum, in absolute prime, sleepy-eyed form, relates a complicated flashback about getting hired by gangster Kirk Douglas to find femme fatale Jane Greer. The chain of film noir elements--love, money, lies--drags Mitchum into the lower depths. Director Jacques Tourneur gets the edgy negotiations between men and women as exactly right as he gets the inky shadows of the noir landscape (even the sunlit exteriors are fraught with doubt). This is Mitchum in excelsis, with his usual laid-back cool laced with...
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| Out of the Past Movie Review by BillyBob (4/6/2008) |
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The year is 1947.
World War II had come and gone.
The World seemed to have grown-up some since the War. War is like that, sometimes. It has a tendency to mature a lot of attitudes. Even Hollywood's.
Post-War movie-making was, to say the least, phenomenal. It was like yet another celebration of glorious Victory. Some of...
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