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1947 | B/N | 97 min

A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses and dishonest women.


Country: Estados Unidos
Direction: Tourneur; Jacques
Script: Mainwaring (Geoffrey Homes); Daniel
Production: Duff; Warren
Photography: Musuraca; Nicholas
Sound: M. Sarver; Francis, Portman; Clem
Music: Webb; Roy
Cast:Fleming; Rhonda, Douglas; Kirk, Greer; Jane, Mitchum; Robert
Art direction: S. D’Agostino; Albert, Okey; Jack
Participation year at FICM: 2011

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Out of the Past

Traidora y mortal

Jeff Bailey, a former private detective who runs a gas station in a quiet California town, is very much in love with his young girlfriend. Unexpectedly, he receives a visit from an old acquaintance who announces that the boss, Whit Sterling, wants to see him. Bailey is then forced to tell his girlfriend about his shady former life as Jeff Markham, a detective hired by Sterling to find his runaway lover.

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