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Out of the Past; Jacques Tourneur (U.S., 1947): Swoon: Great Leading Men in Gorgeous 35mm Prints Film - Series | September 4 | 6:30-8:05 p.m. | Pacific Film Archive Theater Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum Restored Print In his first starring role, Robert Mitchum is already Robert Mitchum: world-weary, laconic, and life-worn, effortlessly masculine yet appealingly wounded, with a boxers build and a poets (or a drunks) sad eyes. Out of the Past is one of the most exquisite and intriguing of noirs, expertly crafted into a complex narrative in which past, present, and future are linked as in a Mbius strip. Mitchum, hiding out behind a small-town identity, is forced to relive his onetime and future career as a private eye when an unresolved case opens up again like a chasm. The film provided the signature Mitchum role: terse and smitten at the same time. Is it love, sex, or a suckers game Jane Greer may be the quintessential femme fatale, but then again, she may not. Her presence (and past), out of the shadows into light and then back again, echoes an obsession with the unknown, the refusal of any kind of sanctuary, that is central to director Jacques Tourneurs worldview. Preserved from nitrate negative. Written by Geoffrey Homes (pseud. of Daniel Mainwaring) from his novel Build My Gallows High. Photographed by Nicholas Musuraca. With Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming. (97 mins, B&W, 35mm, Courtesy Library of Congress, permission Warner Bros.) Tickets required: $5.50 BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley students, $9.50 Adults (18-64), $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, and youth (17 & under) Ticket info: Same-day second screening discount just $4 Purchase tickets at the PFA box office 1 hour before each days first show time. Buy tickets online, or by calling 510-642-5249. Event Contact: bampfa@berkeley.edu, 510-643-2197