{"id":33543,"date":"2023-08-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33543"},"modified":"2023-10-17T07:44:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T11:44:42","slug":"out-of-the-past-1947-directed-by-jacques-tourneur-starring-robert-mitchum-jane-greer-and-kirk-douglas-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33543","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Out of the Past&#8221; (1947) directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z081923zview_outofthepast.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"751\" \/><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Out of the Past <\/em><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">(1947)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Jacques Tourneur<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Daniel Mainwaring <\/strong>based on <strong>Build My Gallows High<\/strong> by<strong> Daniel Mainwaring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas<\/strong><strong>, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Webb, Steve Brodie, Virginia Huston, Paul Valentine <\/strong>and <strong>Dickie Moore.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0<em> A MAN &#8211; Trying to run away from his past&#8230; A WOMAN &#8211; Trying to escape her future!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jeff Markum (Mitchum), a private eye, is hired by an underworld figure named Whit (Douglas).\u00a0 Whit wants his girl back.\u00a0 She shot him and stole $40,000.\u00a0 Whit doesn&#8217;t care about the money, he just wants Kathie back.\u00a0 Whit promises no harm will come to Kathie (Greer).\u00a0 He loves her.\u00a0 Whit says Markum will understand once he meets Kathie.\u00a0 Money is no object.\u00a0 Kathie could be anywhere in the world, but Whit trusts Markum will find her and Whit will pay for it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Markum catches up with Kathie in \u00a0Acapulco.\u00a0 She is beautiful. There&#8217;s a mutual attraction between Markum and Kathie.\u00a0 Kathie admits she shot Whit, but denies taking his money.\u00a0 Markum doesn&#8217;t contact Whit.\u00a0 As the days (and nights) drag on, Markum and Kathie decide to run away together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They know that Whit will send someone to find them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Much of <em>Out of the Past<\/em> is told in flashback that brings us up to speed and then the story is carried forward.\u00a0 This storytelling device is effectively used.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Out of the Past<\/em> is a classic for many reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director Jacques Tourneur is at the top of his game.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mitchum was born to play these kinds of roles.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jane Greer is excellent as the good girl\/dangerous dame.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kirk Douglas had only played supporting roles up to this point in his career.\u00a0 I cannot think of a better actor for the role of the rich, confident man who always gets what he wants.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Steve Brodie plays Mitchum&#8217;s PI partner who turns out to be not much of a partner.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Paul Valentine is impressive as Douglas&#8217; right hand hood.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Out of the Past <\/em>is as noir as it gets.\u00a0 There are tough guys, beautiful but dangerous dames, multiple double crosses, murders, and a shocking ending.\u00a0 I love this movie more with each viewing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Out of the Past <\/em><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">(1947)<\/span><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit; text-align: justify;\"> rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z081923zview_outofthepast2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"370\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of the Past (1947) Director: Jacques Tourneur Screenplay: Daniel Mainwaring based on Build My Gallows High by Daniel Mainwaring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34174,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33543\/revisions\/34174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}