year: 1947
rating: **
Jacques Tourneur is a personal favorite director, but not because of OUT OF THE PAST, considered his very best work for those who didn't pay
close attention to the unique, intricate details of CAT PEOPLE, THE LEOPARD MAN, CANYON PASSAGE or CURSE OF THE DEMON...
Those movies
had tiers to climb, and obstacles to cross. This movie, like Robert
Mitchum's character, sleepwalks from scene to scene where everything is
just too easy: Find the pretty girl who stole Kirk Douglas's
money. No problem. She's in Mexico and in a matter of scenes she's found, and quickly swept off her feet. After all,
Mitchum is handsome and Jane Greer's really pretty. But this is a hollow, mannequin romance, and there have
been more intriguing, risque affairs on daytime soaps. Not even
Tourneur's direction rises above the dull script, so full of contrived,
forced-quotable one-liners, there's hardly a complete sentence
uttered: it's a random collection of snapshots that
aren't even postcards.
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