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Out of the Past (billed in the United Kingdom as Build My Gallows High) is a 1947 American film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas. The film was adapted by Daniel Mainwaring (using the pseudonym Geoffrey Homes) from his 1946 novel Build My Gallows High (also written as Homes ...
Out of the Past: Directed by Jacques Tourneur. With Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming. A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Jacques Tourneur
- 1947-12
Jul 18, 2004 · "Out of the Past" (1947) is one of the greatest of all film noirs, the story of a man who tries to break with his past and his weakness and start over again in a town, with a new job and a new girl.
The quiet life of small-town gas station owner Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum) is interrupted when a figure from his shady past, small-time crook Joe Stephanos (Paul Valentine), recognizes him.
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- Robert Mitchum
- Jacques Tourneur
- Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Jul 26, 2023 · Out of the Past (1947) Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past. Everett Collection. July 26, 2023 7:32 AM EDT. When American GIs returned from World War II, they went to school and they went to...
Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, California. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has a secret past, and when a mysterious stranger arrives in town, Jeff is forced to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
Out of the Past, American film noir, released in 1947, that is widely recognized as a quintessential example of the genre. Jeff Bailey (played by Robert Mitchum) appears to be an ordinary gas station attendant in a small California town. When he is called to a meeting with the slick gangster Whit.
