Out of the Past
Robert Mitchum stars as a tough private eye who is caught in a complex web of love, money and murder when he is hired to find a hood's homicidal girlfriend and falls in love with her.

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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.37:1
- Run Time: 1 hours, 37 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: May 3, 2016
- Originally Released: 1947
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer & Kirk Douglas | |
Performer: | Virginia Huston, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Webb, Paul Valentine, Steve Brodie, Ken Niles & Dickie Moore | |
Directed by | Jacques Tourneur | |
Edited by | Samuel E. Beetley | |
Screenwriting by | Daniel Mainwaring | |
Composition by | Roy Webb | |
Produced by | Warren Duff | |
Director of Photography: | Nicholas Musuraca | |
Executive Production by | Robert Sparks |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: A+ --
[VIDEO ESSAY] One of the best-loved '40s era contributions to the film noir genre, Director Jacques Tourneur's "Out of the Past" (1947) is a definitive model.
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ColeSmithey.com
In a genre full of desperate characters scrambling and plotting to grab their slice of the American dream, Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past (1947) is a hard-boiled tale of betrayal with an unusually haunting quality.
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Parallax View
Each change of angle and shift of light evokes an inner disturbance; the actors seem to push through the dense shadow as through water, revealing fast people in slow motion ...
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New Yorker
Rating: 9/10 --
Essential viewing for the noir fan and the kind of movie that could make a neutral third party into a noir fan in the first place.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Rating: 4/4 --
'Maybe we thought the world would end,' Mitchum muses, during a short-lived spell of happiness in Mexico. 'Maybe we thought it was a dream.' A dream? In his trench coat and fedora, he's clearly not a man destined to die quietly in his bed.
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Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Fairly well played, and very well photographed (by Nicholas Musuraca), the action develops a routine kind of pseudo-tension.
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TIME Magazine
The players acquit themselves histrionically if not morally. Mitchum, [Kirk] Douglas and the Misses [Jane] Greer and [Rhonda] Fleming are all commendable.
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Los Angeles Times
Description by OLDIES.com:
Everything you want in a film noir: a tenacious detective (Robert Mitchum) spinning his wheels to make good. A drop-dead beauty (Jane Greer) up to no good, and moneyed mobster (Kirk Douglas) with a shark's grin, plus double-crosses, fall guys, shadowy rooms and bleak souls.
Keywords:
Detectives
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Classic
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Mystery
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Romance
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Vintage
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Love Story
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Love Triangle
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Film Noir
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Tragedy
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Recommended
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Doomed Lovers
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Theatrical Release
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Love Affairs
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Love Triangles
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Essential Cinema
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 8,392
- UPC: 888574404666
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