Out of the Past - 1947

This is known as the greatest Noir film of all time- so great in fact that I could never get it on Netflix because it was always a long wait- like for two years, so I gave up. Then I found my new best friend- the library hold queue online! For starters this movie has everything you would want in a Noir film. 1. GREAT ACTORS - Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas (looking very young) and Jane Greer. 2. GREAT LIGHTING - The black and white shadows were wonderful, the sets were perfect, I thought the film crew and everyone involved just nailed this. 3. GREAT PLOT AND STORYLINE - kept me interested the whole time. 4. DELIVERY - Mitchum and Douglas take the cake on their lines- wonderful. 4.5 stars for sure. If you like Noir you will like this film. "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..."