Phenomenal in that role. This is the only movie I have ever seen with her, she was mind blowing. I honestly do not think I've hated anyone in a movie as much as I hated her in Out of the Past. Definitely the most EVIL Femme Fatale I've seen in any Film Noir and I have seen ALOT.
If anybody could please recommend any other good films of hers or any good Films Noir it would be greatly appreciated.
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If you haven't already seen it...watch "Against All Odds". It's a remake of "Out of the Past" but with a little difference here and there. I won't spoil it for you. It's cool that she (Ms. Greer) appeared in both films.
shareOr, you could save a couple of hours and skip the viewing since not only does it not hold a candle to the original, the remake is not that good of a film. Yes, I'm a big fan of Jeff Bridges and will watch anything, including "AAO", in which he appears but Rachel Ward playing Jane Greer's role, no thanks. Her second best film was "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" which was based on a very clever concept that missed the mark. The original is a masterpiece, the remake was a bust. Isn't that usually the case?
shareI have to agree with you,, ridge..."AAO" was okay but not worth seeing a 2nd time. "Out of the Past" was one of those 'film noir' classics that brings you back again and again. I don't know of any movies off hand where the 'remake' was worth seeing. There might be several...but I can only think of one right now. "Little Women" made in 1949 wasn't bad. I recently saw it plus the 1933 version both on TCM in the same week. I didn't care much for the one made in 1994.
Against All Odds was terribly disappointing. It started out all right, but they changed the ending from the original and wimped out by having them both survive.
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Depending on how broadly one defines film noir, I'd include films such as "Double Indemnity," "The Big Sleep," "The Maltese Falcon," "Kiss Me Deadly," "Murder, My Sweet," "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (The Garfield-Turner version) and "The Narrow Margin" --and perhaps "Vertigo" and "Rear Window"--as among the best. But for my money, "Out of the Past" will always be the best one. As TCM's Robert Osborne and guest Alec Baldwin pointed out the other day when airing "Out of the Past," every actor's performance in that film is absolutely perfect--a true rarity. (The weird thing is that Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield and Dick Powell, respectively, were all considered for the male lead before it was offered to Mitchum, but they were all unavailable. Today I think most people would agree that Mitchum, in retrospect, was the quintessential one to play the role.)
Film noir tends to have several key elements: a male lead who is somewhat world weary and then finds himself in a tough spot or series of tough spots; a femme fatale; and bleak, shadowy, nighttime urban settings creating an almost constant sense of foreboding. Some of the best noir was created on relatively limited budgets, which is why the cinematographers had to rely on light and shadow, and interesting abstract images, to get the effects. To save money, a lot of the scenes were typically shot on location, which helped create great, realistic atmosphere.
brilliant as Kathie - I'm sure people are tired of saying the was the equal (if than better than) of any of that year's Best Actress Oscar nominees, and certainly of the winner, Loretta Young
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I could kick myself, a few years before she passed away they were showing "Out of the Past" with a Q&A with Jane Greer at the Egyptian Theater in LA and didn't go.
I bet she had some great stories.
Jane Greer was fine but her role was straight out of a pulp magazine. Loretta Young played a more realistic, multi-facted character which is why she won the Oscar and deservedly so.
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Young played a sitcom stereotype with a phony accent. Greer gave possibly the best performance ever of a psychopath. Greer should have won.
shareI think if you liked this film, you would really dig "99 River Street", so look out for that somewhere...not classified as noir here I don't think, but I assure you it is...and it's a very underated film at 7.3.
shareShe was brilliant in this role, yes. But throughout, I kept thinking: I wonder what it would have been like with Gene Tierney. Watch any of her noirs, and you'll know what I mean.
sharejane greer as kathie in out of the past
was simply the definitive femme fatale period exclamation point
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The way she quickly and smoothly changed colors in order to ensure her own survival was beautifully done. And entirely convincing, too.
Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.
One word to describe her would be "STUNNING" Another good movie with Jane and Bob Mitchum would be the Big Steal. Jane Russel was equally stunning and she made a number of movies with Mitchum. The best movie was His Kind of Woman.
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Her facial expressions were something else. Also, to be that pulled together in one's early 20's is pretty good.
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Jane Russel was equally stunning and she made a number of movies with Mitchum. The best movie was His Kind of Woman.