Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Script review - "Out of the Past" by Daniel Mainwaring (1946)

Excellent script, with tough dialogue that fairly leaps off the page - tough, spare, witty, full of subtext. I have found the story hard to follow in the past but not so much this time. But another problem remains - the first half of the film is about one thing (tracking down Kathie and the cash... I guess that's two things), but then changes to be about a whole other thing (getting out of trouble with the tax department). It's hard to readjust.

Gloomy, fatalistic, very adult (Jeff and Kathie are clearly having a sexual relationship). There are too many characters with the first letter "J" in their name.

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