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 Out Of The Past (DVD)
Description: Genre: Crime & Thriller - Thriller / Theatrical Release: 1947 / Director: Jacques Tourneur / Actors: Jane Greer, Robert ... more  Out Of The Past (DVD) ... Mitchum ... / DVD released 12 February, 2007 at Universal Pictures UK / Features of the DVD: Black & White, PAL / Curious tale of a private eye who is hired by a villain to find his homicidal girlfriend. But the story takes a twist when he tracks her down and promptly falls in love with her.Newest Review: ... Joe's arrival. Like most of the best Film Noirs, wheels have been set in motion towards a tragedy of fate. Fate rules Film ... more ... Noir and so we now fate will rule Bailey's future, but how and why we are currently uncertain.
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Joes, cautious, asks how far the kid can read lips, "I'll ask him someday" Bailey quips, Mitchum nearly so calm his eyes are closing. Joe gets to the point, Whit wants to see him. We know nothing of Whit but there is something unspoken between them. The Story.
And so The Story has to be told. As The Story always does.
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Bailey honks his horn outside Ann's home, where she lives with her parents. She...more |
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Out Of The Past (DVD): "Build my gallows high, baby" (2104 words)
by no_name - written on 24.03.07 (Very useful, 167 readings)
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Out of the Past, directed by genre-master Jacques Tourneur, was released in 1947 and was Robert Mitchum's first film since being released from prison after his notorious 'pot bust' (that was mirrored in a scene in Curtis Hansen's LA Confidential). Originally released in the UK as 'Build my Gallows High', after a line in the movie, where Mitchum drawls calmly to femme fatale Jane Greer "build my gallows high, baby" (admittedly it is also the name of the book…), Out of the Past is arguably Mitchum's greatest film, and also the highest point in Tourneur's occasionally brilliant career. No wonder that the title of Mitchum's biography is also a line taken directly ...
