out of the past

This article is about the 1947 film; there was also a 1998 documentary of the same name.

Out of the Past (released in Britain as Build My Gallows High) is a 1947 film noir in which a small-town man tells his girlfriend of his mysterious past as they travel to meet someone who may ruin their lives. It stars Robert Mitchum as that man, Jane Greer as the femme fatale, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Webb and Steve Brodie. The movie was adapted by Daniel Mainwaring (as Geoffrey Homes), Frank Fenton (uncredited) and James M. Cain (uncredited) from the novel Build My Gallows High by Mainwaring (as Homes). It was directed by Jacques Tourneur and released by RKO Radio Pictures. thumb The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. The film is considered by film historians to be a superb example of film noir, because of its convoluted, dreamlike storyline and its impeccably chiaroscuro cinematography (the film was shot by the cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca, who also shot Tourneur's Cat People (1942) and The Leopard Man (1943)). Out of the Past was remade as Against All Odds in 1984.

External links

Out of the Past at Movie Tome

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