Advantages: The best Film Noir ever made... Probably Disadvantages: None, except that the bland guy has to get the girl...
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 ... ...acting style in general.
Out of the Past is the most fitting title for the film, as it encapsulates the film in four very neat words. As we enter an average Joe (and name of the character is literally Joe!) wanders through a small town, and what does he see on a gas station sign but the name of an old friend that he's lost touch with: Jeff Bailey. Immediately, as he sits listening, drinking coffee and cracking wise to the waitress in the diner across ...
No_name 10.03.2007
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