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YES! A definite +1 to that! Out of the Past is one of my all time favorite noir/detective/deadly dame films...really some of his best work IMO. He could've mad an excellent Philip Marlowe
skyvue said:Robert Mitchum in the role he was born to play -- Philip Marlowe -- in any Chandler novel ever adapted to the screen.
Mitchum played Marlowe, and beautifully (in FAREWELL, MY LOVELY, if not the awful THE BIG SLEEP, about which nothing worked), but he was too long in the tooth at the time.
If only he'd gotten the chance to assay Marlowe at the right age. Mitchum's work as a private detective in OUT OF THE PAST gives us a taste of how it would've gone -- he'd have been the Marlowe of all Marlowes, in my opinion.