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Tuesday, Mar 6, 2018
7 PM (105 mins)
SUBJECTS
Out of the Past
(Build My Gallows High)
Members' free screening
Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming,
This event is part of March Member Appreciation Month; our month-long celebration of YOU—our extended BAMPFA family.
In his first starring role, Robert Mitchum is already “Robert Mitchum”: world-weary, laconic, and life-worn, effortlessly masculine yet appealingly wounded, with a boxer’s build and a poet’s (or a drunk’s) sad eyes. Out of the Past is one of the most exquisite and intriguing of noirs, expertly crafted into a complex narrative in which past, present, and future are linked as in a Möbius strip. Mitchum, hiding out behind a small-town identity, is forced to relive his onetime and future career as a private eye when an unresolved case opens up again like a chasm. The film provided the signature Mitchum role: terse and smitten at the same time. Is it love, sex, or a sucker’s game? Jane Greer may be the quintessential femme fatale, but then again, she may not. Her presence (and past), out of the shadows into light and then back again, echoes an obsession with the unknown, the refusal of any kind of sanctuary, that is central to director Jacques Tourneur’s worldview. Preserved from nitrate negative.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Geoffrey Homes
Based On
The novel Build My Gallows High by Geoffrey Homes'
Cinematographer
- Nicholas Musuraca
Language
- English
Print Info
- B&W
- 35mm
- 97 mins
Source
- Library of Congress
Permission
- Warner Bros.
CINEFILES
CineFiles is an online database of BAMPFA's extensive collection of documentation covering world cinema, past and present.
View Out of the past documents
Out of the past (program note), Cinematheque Ontario/a division of Toronto International Film Festival Group, David Thomson, 1999
Out of the past (review), SF Weekly, Gregg Rickman, 1997
Out of the past (program note), Denver International Film Festival, 1996
Fuga do passado (program note), Sao Paulo International Film Festival, 1987
Ou sont les film noirs d'antan ? (article), Village Voice, Andrew Sarris, 1984
The blustery bombastics of Against the odds (review), Reader (Los Angeles, Calif.), Bob Fukuyama, 1984
Out of the past (program note), Los Angeles International Film Exposition, 1971
Out of the past (review), Variety, Brog., 1947
Out of the past (program note)
Out of the past (program note), Edinburgh Film Festival
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