Also Known As: Goldenes Gift
Company: RKO Radio Pictures
Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1
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. En route to the meeting, he tells girlfriend Ann his story. Flashback: Once, Jeff was a private eye hired by Sterling to find his mistress Kathie who shot Whit and absconded with $40,000. He traces her to Acapulco...where the delectable Kathie makes Jeff forget all about Sterling... Back in the present, Whit's new job for Jeff is clearly a trap, but Jeff's precautions only leave him more tightly enmeshed...
Cast and Character: Robert Mitchum as Jeff / Jane Greer as Kathie / Kirk Douglas as Whit / Rhonda Fleming as Meta Carson / Richard Webb as Jim / Steve Brodie as Fisher / Virginia Huston as Ann / Paul Valentine as Joe / Dickie Moore as The Kid / Ken Niles as Eels
Trailer: n/A
Creators: n/A
Description: A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses and duplicitous dames.
Directors: Jacques Tourneur
Genres: Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
Location: Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
MPAA: Approved
Opening Weekend: n/A
Poster: posters/0039689.jpg
Rating: 8.1
Release Date: 13 November 1947 (USA)
Runtime: 97 min
Seasons: n/A
Sound Mix: Mono
Tagline: A guy without a fortune! A girl with too much past!
Title: Out of the Past
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Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039689/
Votes: 15,788
Writers: Daniel Mainwaring / Daniel Mainwaring
Year: 1947
Out of the Past got rated 8.1.
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