Out of the Past Director: Jacques Tourneur (1947) (97 min) Book cinema tickets The definitive flashback movie, in which our fated hero Robert Mitchum makes a rendezvous with death and his own past in the shape of Jane Greer. Beguiling and resolutely ominous, this hallucinatory voyage has two more distinctions: as the only movie with both a deaf-mute garage hand and death by a fishing-rod It’s one of the most bewildering and beautiful films ever made. Director: Jacques Tourneur (1947) (97 min)