Out of the Past (1947)

Calificación de los usuarios:

8.1/10   

Director:

Jacques Tourneur

Escritores:

Daniel Mainwaring (screenplay)
Daniel Mainwaring (novel)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

13 noviembre 1947 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Cine Negro | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

A MAN - Trying to run away from his past... A WOMAN - Trying to escape her future!

Plot:

Jeff Bailey, small-town gas pumper, has his mysterious past catch up with him one day when he's ordered to meet with gambler Whit Sterling...

Plot Keywords:

Gangster | Small Town | Cabin | Flashback | Murder

Premios:

1 win

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A classic--maybe the best film noir ever

Reparto

Robert Mitchum	...	Jeff Bailey
Jane Greer	...	Kathie Moffat
Kirk Douglas	...	Whit Sterling
Rhonda Fleming	...	Meta Carson
Richard Webb	...	Jim
Steve Brodie	...	Jack Fisher
Virginia Huston	...	Ann Miller
Paul Valentine	...	Joe Stephanos
Dickie Moore	...	The Kid
Ken Niles	...	Leonard Eels

También conocida como:

Build My Gallows High (UK)
Retorno al pasado (Argentina) (Spain) [es]

Duración:

97 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés | American Sign Language

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Clasificación:

Australia:PG | Iceland:12 | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (re-rating) (1998) | Germany:12 (re-rating) | Germany:18 (original rating) | Canada:PG (video rating) | Sweden:15 (re-rating) (1965) | Argentina:13 | Sweden:(Banned) | USA:Approved (PCA #12082) | Spain:13

Locaciones de Filmación:

Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico

Compañía:

RKO Radio Pictures

Trivialidades:

This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1991.

Citas:

Jeff Bailey: [answering the door] Well, the last guy in the world...
Whit Sterling: I hate surprises myself. You wanna just shut the door and forget it?

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in The Lottery (2007)

Banda de Sonido:

THE FIRST TIME I SAW YOU

A classic--maybe the best film noir ever

Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum) runs a small gas station in a little town in CA. He's in love with a beautiful girl. But he has a past which is about to catch up with him involving gangster Whit (Kirk Douglas) and evil Kathie Moffat (Jane Greer)...MANY twists and turns happen.

The plot is very complicated but this is a prime example of film noir. It's beautifully directed using darkness in almost every shot and has all the ingredients of a good noir--an innocent man (Robert Mitchum) in over his head, a bad guy (Kirk Douglas) and a totally amoral woman (Jane Greer). What makes this stands out (beside the incredible cinematography and direction) is a wonderful script. It's full of some truly incredible lines and delivered dead pan by the cast (as it should be). If any of them had winked at the camera once this would have failed. Mitchum plays it very stone-faced but Douglas is great and Greer is just fascinating as a totally evil, beautiful woman.

Basically a must-see film.