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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), [1] with uncredited revisions by Frank Fenton and James M. Cain .
A private eye escapes his past to run 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. See cast, crew, reviews, trivia, awards, and more.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Jacques Tourneur
- 1947-12
Jul 18, 2004 · Out of the Past. Most crime movies begin in the present and move forward, but film noir coils back into the past. The noir hero is doomed before the story begins -- by fate, rotten luck, or his own flawed character. Crime movies sometimes show good men who go bad. The noir hero is never good, just kidding himself, living in ignorance of his ...
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Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. 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 ...
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
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Out of the Past (1947) is a classic film noir starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer. Watch it online for free at Archive.org, a digital library of books, movies, and more.