# Out of the Past (1947)

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**Runtime**: 97 min
**Genres**: Crime, Thriller
**Directed by**: Jacques Tourneur
**Written by**: Daniel Mainwaring
**Starring**: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Paul Valentine, Virginia Huston, Rhonda Fleming

> *OUT of the Sun, OUT of the Moonlight, OUT of the Past.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Rainy night streets a lone saxophone plays a gas station glows 
A man's past confronts him at the pumps 
Tourneur's noir sensibility shines here

**Mood tags**: dread

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