Lack of good storyline.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

What a movie great story and stars dependable quality writing just sit enjoy and don't analysise

Starting off a review by admitting having no idea who the director of the film you're about to write a review of is certainly far from ideal. Yet it hardly matters if Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas are the actors. The film was adapted by Daniel Mainwaring (under a pen name) from his novel Build my Gallows High (also written under a pen name).A retired private eye runs a gas station in a small town, where he leads a quiet life under the phoney name of Jeff Bailey. He spends his leisure time fishing and whit a young girl he wants to marry. Unexpectedly, he receives the visit of and old friend who told him that Whit Sterling, a boss in the mob, wants to see him. Bailey is forced to explain to his soon-to-be-wife his shady past in a very long flashback: he was hired by Sterling to look for his lover, Kathie Moffet, who had run away with a considerable sum of money, 40.000 dollars, managed to find her in Acapulco but as he fell in love with her, they decided to flee from Sterling and go to live in San Francisco. However, the woman fled again leaving him alone after the dearth of the former Bailey¡s mate in business, who had discovered his whereabouts. When the flash-back finishes Bailey is drawn back to Sterling and starts to suspect that he longs to take revenge on him over what happened.Thus the two plotlines are merged into one. Bailey, back to his usual business, is pulled back into a world he knows as well as the back of his hand. As in any good Noir picture, there are twists and turns where they are needed, sometimes in the shape of a gun coming out of a raincoat pocket, sometimes it's just betraying and stabbing in the back. All that would account to almost nothing if the movie hadn't had Robert Mitchum in in. Hi is Noir. His height lends him the ability to scan a murder scene as if he were a owl up on a tree branch; his eyes are the eyes of a marble statue.

This movie will want to make you throw pomade in your hair, light up a camel cigarette, and talk extra fast. Black and white, backdoor trickery, and clean suits is definitely why I chose this movie over any modern Judd Apatow film. Robert Mitchum who is pure outlaw versus Kirk Douglas who is hard fisted gangster. With guns, whitewalls, and femme fatales you'll definitely want to go back in time with Out of the Past

Out of the Past is considered to be one of the best film noirs in movie history and for good reason. The multi layered plot mixed with the dark and suspenseful mood that Director Jacques Tourneur is famous for really set the tone for this fantastic film. The story has every theme you'd expect from a film noir like betrayal and corruption all within a morally ambiguous atmosphere. Centered around a love triangle with a extraordinary femme fatale played by Jane Greer you are left on the edge of your seat trying to figure out everything going on.