Out of the Past

Out of the Past (1947)
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039689/]

The Gist:
Strong little noir film. Robert Mitchum is playing a private detective who is sent to track down the girl, ends up falling for the girl, ends up that the girl is straight up femme fatale crazy, lots of double crossing and low key lighting and flashbacks, everyone gets killed, roll credits. I liked it, but it didn't stand out in the genre, I didn't have a strong emotional attachment to anyone, and it was hard for me to shake the feeling of the last and only other Robert Mitchum performance I've seen: the psychotic killer in Night of the Hunter. Still, it's a strong entry stylistically, and the writing is sharp.