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Robert Mitchum stars in “Out of the Past” as Jeff Bailey. As the film opens, he is the owner of a small town gas station; he’s romancing a beautiful girl (Virginia Huston) and his life seems idyllic. However, a stranger arrives looking for Bailey, and everything changes irrevocably. The story is told partially in flashback – enumerating his past with a cutthroat gangster (Kirk Douglas) and a mysterious moll (Jane Greer) – and partially in the present as his past ensnares him into a complicated morass of murder and revenge.
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“Out of the Past” is a quintessential 1940s film noir, right up there with “Double Indemnity” and “The Maltese Falcon,” although it’s arguably not as well known as those classics. The script is whip-smart and filled with brilliant dialogue – a character asserts to Bailey, “Don’t you see you’ve only me to make deals with now?” and Bailey shoots back, “Build my gallows high, baby.” Each scene is perfectly shot with an abundance of ambience; director Jacques Tourneur specialized in moody films, such as “I Walked with a Zombie,” and he certainly scores here. The plot is full of crosses and double-crosses – it’s admittedly not one of the most complex film noirs; however, the characters are perfectly etched, and the film builds to a heartbreaking conclusion.
In 1991, “Out of the Past” was inducted into the National Film Registry, which protects important American films. The film clearly deserves this honor and fortunately will be preserved for future generations of film noir fans. Overall, “Out of the Past” is one of the best film noirs I’ve seen and a top-notch movie in every way. Most highly recommended.
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DVD extras: the main extra is a somewhat dry but informative commentary by James Ursini, an author noted for writing about film noir.
This classic film noir, featuring the twin cleft-chinned presences of
Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas, has got to be one of the most
enjoyable ever made. It’s not the somewhat confusing plot, but the
snappy dialogue — and the confident acting — which makes it work so
well. The repartee (”A woman with a rod is like a man with a
knitting needle”) is worthy of some of the best screwball
comedies and yet it’s just as dark as a noir should be in terms of the
desperate things the characters do and the terrible things that happen
to them as a consequence. Jacques Tourneur (”Cat People”,
“I Walked With a Zombie”) directs with finesse, but the
importance of an ace writer like James M. Cain (”The Postman
Always Rings Twice”) — uncredited for some reason — can’t be
stressed enough. He deserves as much credit for the success of the
film as Tourneur, Mitchum, Douglas, and shapely femme fatale Jane
Greer, the woman who seduces both Mitchum and Douglas — rod in hand.
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