Out Of The Past
For the last three years, Jeff Bailey has been laying low and trying to live a normal life by running a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses and duplicitous dames.
May 7, 1901 in Durango, Mexico
12 September 1925, Los Angeles, California, USA
November 28, 1906 in Pendleton, Oregon, USA
9 September 1924, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
July 27, 1894 in Valencia, Spain
25 November 1919, El Dorado, Kansas, USA
24 March 1910, Portland, Maine, USA
9 December 1906, Livingston, Montana, USA
31 December 1911, Houston, Texas, USA
3 June 1916, Hollywood, California, USA
24 April 1925, Wisner, Nebraska, USA
11 March 1908, Italy
1 June 1900, Manhattan, New York, USA
8 November 1882, Nova Scotia, Canada
3 December 1900, Illinois, USA
6 August 1917, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
9 December 1916, Amsterdam, New York, USA
23 March 1919, New York City, New York, USA
13 March 1907, DeSoto, Missouri, USA
April 4, 1905 in Centralia, Illinois, USA
December 13, 1895 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
July 18, 1903 in New York, USA
9 September 1915, Bloomington, Illinois, USA
March 4, 1908 in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico
February 6, 1896 in New York City, New York, USA
10 June 1909, New York City, New York, USA
10 August 1923, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
9 January 1891, Manzaneda, Ourense, Galicia, Spain
September 17, 2014
Out Of The Past is undeniably a film noir, and rightly regarded as one of the genre's best.
April 18, 2007
Direction by Jacques Tourneur pays close attention to mood development, achieving realistic flavor that is further emphasized by real life settings and topnotch lensing by Nicholas Musuraca.
May 20, 2003
It's very snappy and quite intriguingly played by a cast that has been well and smartly directed by Jacques Tourneur.
February 11, 2012
[VIDEO ESSAY] One of the best-loved '40s era contributions to the film noir genre, Director Jacques Tourneur's "Out of the Past" (1947) is a definitive model.
April 07, 2015
Essential viewing for the noir fan and the kind of movie that could make a neutral third party into a noir fan in the first place.
April 07, 2014
Each change of angle and shift of light evokes an inner disturbance; the actors seem to push through the dense shadow as through water, revealing fast people in slow motion ...
April 18, 2007
The most delicate and nuanced of film noirs, graced with a reflective lyricism that almost lifts it out of the genre.
March 14, 2015
In a genre full of desperate characters scrambling and plotting to grab their slice of the American dream, Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past (1947) is a hard-boiled tale of betrayal with an unusually haunting quality.
January 20, 2006
One of the greatest of all film noirs.
August 16, 2011
Few films noir were better than this.
January 26, 2006
All these B movie poets were under contract to RKO in the winter of 1946, and produced the best movie of everyone involved -- once seen, never forgotten.
