Ep 17 - Out of the Past

Robert Mitchum as Jeff Bailey (aka Jeff Markum) in Out of the Past

“Baby, I don’t care.” With that dialogue, Robert Mitchum makes the hard-boiled heart of this film noir classic beat like brass knuckles on a bass drum. This episode we take great pleasure in talking about Mitchum sporting that trenchcoat and fedora, smoking all the cigarettes in the shadows as he faces off against Kirk Douglas’s smiling menace and Jane Greer’s murky motivations in Jacques Tourneur’s outstanding ‘Out of the Past’.

Plus, we’ve got a rundown on the book it was based upon, ‘Build My Gallows High’ by Daniel Mainwaring. And Will has a few (controversial) thoughts on the 80’s remake ‘Against All Odds’ starring Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward, and James Woods. Could the remake somehow be better than the original? Take a listen to hear Will talk himself into a tight corner over that one.

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