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Out of the Past (released in Britain as Build My Gallows High) is a 1947 film noir in which a small-town man tells his girlfriend of his mysterious past as they travel to meet someone who may ruin their lives. It stars Robert Mitchum as that man, Jane Greer as the femme fatale, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming , Richard Webb and Steve Brodie .
The movie was adapted by Daniel Mainwaring (as Geoffrey Homes), Frank Fenton (uncredited) and James M. Cain (uncredited) from the novel Build My Gallows High by Mainwaring (as Homes). It was directed by Jacques Tourneur and released by RKO Radio Pictures.
The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. The film is considered by film historians to be a prototypical film noir, both because of its convoluted, dreamlike storyline and its impeccably detailed cinematography (the film was shot by the cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca , who also shot Tourneur's Cat People ( 1942) and The Leopard Man ( 1943)).
Out of the Past was remadeIn cinema, a remake is a work that has the same story, and often the same title, as a work that was made earlier. In the history of cinema, remakes have generally been considered inferior to the earlier versions by film critics and cinema-goers alike, but as Against All OddsAgainst All Odds is a 1984 film, a remake of Out of the Past''. It was directed by Taylor Hackford and starred Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges, James Woods, Alex Karras, Jane Greer, Richard Widmark and Dorian Harewood. The movie's soundtrack, nominated for a Gr in 1984See also 1983 in film 1984 1985 in film 1980s in film years in film film Events Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film. November 26 Filming starts on Back to the Future''. Actress Sharon Stone marrie.