Out of the Past

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces Out Of The Past, 1947.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Out Of The Past, 1947.

Noir Alley host Eddie Muller introduces Out Of The Past, 1947, with guest Chris Mitchum.

Halfway into the movie dominated by his flashback, ex-private eye Jeff (Robert Mitchum) is already smoking as ex-boss Whit (Kirk Douglas) offers a cigarette and a surprise (Jane Greer, his double-crossing ex-flame Kathie), Lake Tahoe in the background,in Jacques Tourneur's Out Of The Past, 1947.

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Private-eye Jeff (Robert Mitchum) continuing his flashback, covers his arrival in Acapulco and his first meeting with his target Kathie (Jane Greer), in Jacques Tourneur's Out Of The Past, 1947.

In his flashback account, Jeff (Robert Mitchum) covers his reunion with Kathie (Jane Greer), who he'd run off with after being paid to find her, and the appearance of his private-eye partner Jack (Steve Brodie), who's after the 40-grand she claims she never stole, a famous twist, in Jacques Tourneur's Out Of The Past, 1947.

Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum) and girlfriend Ann (Virginia Huston) at the lake in their first scene, "The Kid" (Dickie Moore) signals that a visitor (Paul Valentine) awaits at the gas station, early in Jacques Tourneur's Out Of The Past, 1947.

Kathie (Jane Greer), meeting Jeff (Robert Mitchum) on a Mexican beach the on second night of their fling, makes clear she knows he's a detective sent by the boyfriend she shot, prompting his famous line, in Out Of The Past, 1947.

Jeff (Robert Mitchum) is about to leave Acapulco with the girl he's been paid to find, forced to lie when his suspicious employer Whit (Kirk Douglas) appears with henchman Joe (Paul Valentine), still in the complex early flashback, in Jacques Tourneur's Out Of The Past, 1947.