Notice the slight increase in the harshness of the shadows from the Mexican scenes and also her grey wardrobe. Jeff even says in the film: “maybe it was all a dream and we’ll wake up with a hangover at Niagara Falls.” Kathie Moffatt in the second stage of her development as femme fatale. We see her, dressed in a brilliant white to accentuate both her innocence in the eyes of Jeff’s memory and, really, her waif-like qualities.
#Out of the past series
Jeff remembers the hot, steamy, moon-light filled nights with her in Acapulco, as he recounts the whole story through a series of flashbacks to his current girlfriend Ann ( Virginia Huston) as they drive from Bridgeport to Lake Tahoe to see Whit. The first stage of the evolution of Kathie Moffatt as the story’s femme fatale is rooted in Jeff’s memories of her. The Evolution of Kathie Moffatt as a Femme Fatale Jeff, as much as he would like to say “no”, cannot, because of the pull of the specter of Kathie Moffatt and his undone past, even though he knows this will lead him into Whit framing him for murder. At any rate, Whit’s goon Joe ( Paul Valentine), catches up with Jeff at the gas station he opened in Bridgeport in the present day with a job for Jeff.
The story, though, is not exactly clear on what happened. They head to San Francisco and try to make a new life for themselves away from Whit but are presumably found out, as something has to break their revelry to land Jeff in the present day. Jeff finds Kathie south of the border and falls in love. Notice the very soft lighting and white clothes to accentuate this. Jane Greer as Kathie Moffatt in her innocent stage of development as femme fatale. She absconded to Mexico with $40,000 of Whit’s money after she planted two slugs from the Gambler’s. He has done all he can to escape his past working for gambler Whit ( Kirk Douglas) to track down his girlfriend Kathie Moffatt. The mysterious man with the past neighbors and acquaintances in a small town gossip about, Jeff Bailey is suddenly plucked from the little California town of Bridgeport.
#Out of the past movie
The movie has aged like a finer version of the bourbon Jeff Bailey drinks as he waits and longs for the ethereal Kathie Moffatt in the Mexican cantina. Seeing the laconic, cool, epitome-of-smooth Robert Mitchum in stunning high-definition monochrome, yet not escaping the flicker of the nitrate, alongside the eternal beauty, dream, and waif-like presence of Jane Greer’s femme fatale Kathie Moffatt in the same high-definition celluloid is such a cool thing for any fan of film noir, and indeed, great cinema as a whole.
#Out of the past 1080p
Watching it in 1080P on my 4k laptop was a great experience. Out of the Past is celebrating its seventieth anniversary this year, which is a great time to evaluate its impact again on us, the audience. The marking of these stages is accomplished brilliantly through the deftly balanced cinematography of Director of Photography Nicholas Musuraca, the symbolic wardrobe motifs of director Jacques Tourneur, and the incredible performances of the players. We get to witness the character’s moral degeneration and final morphing into the fatal woman of the story through three separate events in her history with Jeff Bailey ( Robert Mitchum). Jacques Tourneur’s seminal film noir Out of the Past (1947), titled Build My Gallows High in the UK release, is a searing study of the femme fatale in the character Kathie Moffatt ( Jane Greer). She is a paragon of beauty, amorality, predatory instinct, and fatalism.We know she is bad news, yet we cannot take our eyes off her. The femme fatale is probably the best known film noir character type.
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