OUT OF THE PAST
1947
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Falls from heights, California, Loyalty, Gamblers, Acapulco (Mexico), Police, Private detectives, Revenge, New York City, Deaf-mutes
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas [ More ]
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Writer: Daniel Mainwaring
Producer: Warren Duff
Cinematographer: Nicholas Musuraca
Editor: Samuel E. Beetley
Production Designers: Albert D’Agostino, Jack Okey
Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Describing the film noir OUT OF THE PAST (1947), Robert Osborne notes that Jane Greer’s performance has been hailed as the quintessential “femme fatale,” and that her role was reprised by Rachel Ward in the 1983 remake, AGAINST ALL ODDS. In that version, Jane Greer returned to the story to play Ward’s mother…
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