Out of the Past (DVD, 2004)

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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.

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UPC0053939675924
eBay Product ID (ePID)30735885

Product Key Features

ActorRobert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, Jane Greer
RatingNR
Movie/TV TitleOut of the Past
DirectorJacques Tourneur
FormatDVD
Release Year2004
GenreDrama

Additional Product Features

Region CodeRegion 1
Number of Discs1
Country/Region of ManufactureUSA
Signal StandardDvd
Leading RoleRobert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, Jane Greer
Release Date20040706
Film CountryUSA

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    This film is a classic of the Noir genre. Robert mitchum, and cast are fantastic. It's so good it spawned a remake in the 80s entitled Against All Odds.

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    I purchased this movie after viewing it on tcm channel and gave it to our local veteran as a gift, as he loves old movies. He liked it as much as I did.

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