OUT OF THE PAST by Jacques Tourneur
USA, 1947, 97’
Jeff Bailey lives in the province, works at a gas station and is about to get married, he is an ordinary man apparently, but when the henchmen of the powerful gangster Nick Sterling come to look for him, his dark past comes back to the surface.
Many years before, when he was still a private detective, Jeff was hired by Sterling to find a woman who had scammed him, Kathie Moffat, and he fell in love with her, lying to the criminal, ending uo being betrayed and involved in a murder. Running away from Sterling and the law, Jeff has a brand new life, but now it’s time to deal with his enemies and with his broken heart.
Jacques Tourneur (Paris, November 12th 1904 – Bergerac, December 19th 1977), son of director Maurice Tourneur, has directed more than 70 films from all genres between France and USA, but he is mostly remembered for his ingenious low-budgeted horror films produced by Val Lewton, such as Cat People, The Leopard Man, I Walked with a Zombie and for the melodrama Out of the past.
FILMOGRAPHY:
Tout ça ne vaut pas l'amour (1931)
Pour être aimé (1933)
Toto (1933)
They All Come Out (1939)
Nick Carter, Master Detective) (1939)
Phantom Raiders (1940)
Doctors Don't Tell (1941)
The Incredible Stranger (1942)
The Magic Alphabet (1942)
Cat People (1942)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
The Leopard Man (1943)
Reward Unlimited (1944)
Days of Glory (1944)
Experiment Perilous (1944)
Canyon Passage (1946)
Out of the Past (1947)
Berlin Express (1948)
Easy Living (1949)
Stars in My Crown (1950)
The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
Circle of Danger (1951)
Anne of the Indies (1951)
Way of a Gaucho (1952)
Appointment in Honduras (1953)
Stranger on Horseback) (1955)
Wichita (1955)
Great Day in the Morning (1956)
Nightfall (1956)
Night of Demon (1957)
Frontier Rangers (1959)
Timbuktu (1959)
La battaglia di Maratona (co-regia di Bruno Vailati) (1959)
The Comedy of Terrors (1964)
War-Gods of the Deep (1965)
