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Out of the Past
1947
· Movie
· 97 min
A
MEANRANK
82/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #389
- IMDb #486
- Rotten Tomatoes #624
- Metacritic #511
- Letterboxd #376
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1376
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #384
- Metacritic Critics #412
- Metacritic Audience #1145
- Criticker #104
- Kinopoisk #1784
- AlloCiné #299
- Trakt #931
Every rating
73–92
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 73, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 92.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A former private investigator, now running a gas station in a small town, is found by his violent past. His old boss, a ruthless gangster, drags him back into a web of betrayal and murder concerning a missing woman and a large sum of money. He is forced to confront the femme fatale he once loved and the double-cross that originally caused him to flee, sealing his tragic fate.
Details
- Director
- Jacques Tourneur
- Writer
- Daniel Mainwaring
- Based on
- Build My Gallows High by Daniel Mainwaring
- Studio
- RKO Radio Pictures
- Released
- 25 November 1947
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, American Sign
- Runtime
- 97 min
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Cast
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Awards
1 win total
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