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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Jacques Tourneur |
| Stars: |
Robert Mitchum |
| Actors: |
Ken Niles |
| Genre: |
Dramas |
| Subgenre: |
Suspense · Vintage · Recommended · Romances · Detectives · Doomed Lovers · Love Story · Tragedy · Film Noir · Love Affairs · Love Triangles · Essential Cinema · Classic · Mystery · Thriller |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Available Formats: |
DVD |
| UPC: |
083939606031 |
| Release Date: |
1947 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 37min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD, 1hr 37min
Release Company: Warner Home Video (July 06, 2004)
UPC: 053939675924 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 1hr 37min
Release Company: Turner Home Entertainment (April 25, 1990) |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Geoffrey Homes |
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Professional Reviews
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(06/01/2008, p.161, Angie Errigo): "Douglas' brash dynamism gives contrast to Mitchum's still, watchful cool." |
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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 ... |
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