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Out of the Past 1947 ★★★★★
If you ask me what’s the greatest noir, I’ll automatically answer Out of the Past. This is a pretty standard opinion among the cognoscenti. But I’d love some day to be able to properly articulate why I think it is. I suspect it’s the alchemy of Jacques Tourneur’s direction and Nicholas Musuraca’s cinematography plus Frank Fenton’s and James M. Cain’s catgut-tight dialogue that encapsulates the ineluctable fatalism at the core of film noir:
Jane Greer: “Is there any way to win?”
Robert Mitchum: “There’s a way to lose more slowly,”
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