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| Category | Dramas DVDs, Thriller Movies, Mystery Videos, Suspense, Romance, Recommended, Classic, Essential Cinema, Vintage, Detective, Love Story, Love Triangles, Love Affairs, Tragedy, Film Noir, Doomed Lovers | | Starring | Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, Jane Greer, Rhonda Fleming, Steve Brodie, Dickie Moore, Richard Webb, Paul Valentine, Virginia Huston, Ken Niles | | Director | Jacques Tourneur | | Composer | Roy Webb | | Costume Designer | Edward Stevenson | | Director of Photography | Nicholas Musuraca | | Editor | Samuel E. Beetley | | Executive Producer | Robert Sparks | | Producer | Warren Duff | | Production Designer | Jack Okey, Albert S. D'Agostino | | Screenwriter | Geoffrey Homes | | Script Rewrite Uncredited | Frank Fenton, James M. Cain | | Source Writer | Geoffrey Homes |
Black & White; Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Soundtrack English; English Subtitles A private eye named Jeff, about to die from a bullet wound, tells the story of how he came to his violent end. In flashback, we see how it all began...
Whit, a gangster with a penchant for robbery, hires Jeff to find a particular double-crossing dame: Kathie, the gal who shot Whit, left him for dead and took off with forty grand. Jeff finds her in Acapulco, but instead of turning her in, he falls in love--and that's a mistake he never should have made. Eternal icon of cool Robert Mitchum is at his sad-eyed, world-weary finest in OUT OF THE PAST (aka BUILD MY GALLOWS HIGH), one of the true classics of postwar American film noir. Mitchum stars as existential antihero Jeff Markham, a retired private detective with a shady past who is hoping for a fresh start with a new name, a new love, and a new job running a small gas station in a rural California town. But Jeff's past comes back to haunt him in the guise of menacing gangster Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas, in only his second big screen role), who had hired Markham to track down his double-crossing moll, Kathie (Jane Greer, in definitive femme-fatale mode), after she had shot him and absconded with $40,000 of his money. The trio's entangled history is revealed via flashback and voice-over narration that includes some of the snappiest dialogue in film-noir history ("You're like an autumn leaf that the wind blows from one gutter to another"), which, along with Jacques Tourneur's moody direction and Nicholas Musuraca's shadowy cinematography, underscore the story's tragic aura of fate and predestination. OUT OF THE PAST was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1991.
The Turner videocassette is part of the "RKO Collection."
Remade in 1984 as "Against All Odds."
Copyright 1947 RKO Pictures; Renewed 1975 RKO General, Inc. Out Of The Past Reviews: "With Jane Greer as the dame turning from wide-eyed honey to exterminating angel and Kirk Douglas ecstatically spiteful..."
-- Uncut Staff, Uncut "Douglas' brash dynamism gives contrast to Mitchum's still, watchful cool."-- Angie Errigo, Empire Out Of The Past | List Price | $19.97 (You save $5.48) | | Studio | Warner Home Video | | Orig Year | 1947 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  7282  | | CD Universe Part number | 6735498 | | Catalog number | 6759 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jul 06, 2004 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Also Known As | Build My Gallows High | | Running Time | 97 Minutes | | Additional Info | Full Frame; Black & White; Subtitled | | Movie Details | B&W; Full Frame; Black & White; Subtitled |
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