event Out Of The Past
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Sat Oct 31
7 pm,
Out Of The Past at AFI Silver Theatre And Cultural Center
Out Of The Past brought together a collective of ‘40s B-movie stalwarts. Then-unproven leading man Robert Mitchum plays the owner of a small-town gas station whose attempts to stake out a new life fail when his past comes back to haunt him. When summoned by Kirk Douglas, a menacing gambler with an old score to settle, Mitchum recalls his days as a private eye hired by Douglas to track down Jane Greer’s cool seductress, who shot him and ran off to Mexico with $40,000. The film’s gorgeously melancholic tone owes much to Mitchum’s smoldering persona, but it’s also distinguished by the complexity of Greer’s femme fatale, who both ensnares the hero with her wiles and is herself tragically ensnared by fate.
AFI Silver Theatre And Cultural Center 8633 Colesville Road, Washington D.C., MD -
Sun Nov 1
4:30 pm,
Out Of The Past at AFI Silver Theatre And Cultural Center
Out Of The Past brought together a collective of ‘40s B-movie stalwarts. Then-unproven leading man Robert Mitchum plays the owner of a small-town gas station whose attempts to stake out a new life fail when his past comes back to haunt him. When summoned by Kirk Douglas, a menacing gambler with an old score to settle, Mitchum recalls his days as a private eye hired by Douglas to track down Jane Greer’s cool seductress, who shot him and ran off to Mexico with $40,000. The film’s gorgeously melancholic tone owes much to Mitchum’s smoldering persona, but it’s also distinguished by the complexity of Greer’s femme fatale, who both ensnares the hero with her wiles and is herself tragically ensnared by fate.
AFI Silver Theatre And Cultural Center 8633 Colesville Road, Washington D.C., MD
Out Of The Past brought together a collective of ‘40s B-movie stalwarts. Then-unproven leading man Robert Mitchum plays the owner of a small-town gas station whose attempts to stake out a new life fail when his past comes back to haunt him. When summoned by Kirk Douglas, a menacing gambler with an old score to settle, Mitchum recalls his days as a private eye hired by Douglas to track down Jane Greer’s cool seductress, who shot him and ran off to Mexico with $40,000. The film’s gorgeously melancholic tone owes much to Mitchum’s smoldering persona, but it’s also distinguished by the complexity of Greer’s femme fatale, who both ensnares the hero with her wiles and is herself tragically ensnared by fate.
Updated 10/21/2009
