opinion: Your past will always catch your present. Jeff (Mitchum) our hero is a PI with a dark past trying to escape his fate, starting a new life in a small village (in vain)! His terrible mistake is to fall in love with Kathie (Greer) the girlfriend of his former associate With (Douglas) that happens to be a mobster boss. Jeff´s assignment was to trace Kathie, the femme-fatale, responsible for destroying all men around her. Jeff included. He knows that there is a trap, but it´s unable to avoid it. The web prepared by Kathie is embracing him… to the dead. “… You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it…”;
Still today, Mitchum and Douglas… our anti-heros of the Noir period!
rating: 4,5 of 5;
when latest: June 9th 2016;
where: S. Paulo, Brazil;
quotes: “… I didn’t know what I was doing. I, I didn’t know anything except how much I hated him. But I didn’t take anything. I didn’t, Jeff. Don’t you believe me?
… Baby, I don’t care. …”;
director: Jacques Tourneur;
starring: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas;
country: USA;
release date: November 13th 1947;
run time: 97 min;
genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir;
storyline: Jeff Bailey, small-town gas pumper, has his mysterious past catch up with him one day when he’s ordered to meet with gambler Whit Sterling. En route to the meeting, he tells girlfriend Ann his story. Flashback: Once, Jeff was a private eye hired by Sterling to find his mistress Kathie who shot Whit and absconded with $40,000. He traces her to Acapulco…where the delectable Kathie makes Jeff forget all about Sterling… Back in the present, Whit’s new job for Jeff is clearly a trap, but Jeff’s precautions only leave him more tightly enmeshed…;
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