out of the past

June 1943 issue

Paul Valentine from Out of the Past

Jane Greer and Robert Mitchum, Out of the Past, 1947

Geoffrey Homes, Build My Gallows High, 1946 Morrow hardcover

cover art by Harry Barton

basis for the 1947 film noir classic Out of the Past

better image than previously posted

[post updated 7/3/25]

Jane Greer as Kathie, the hardest boiled femme fatale of all time

Out of the Past (RKO, 1947)m directed by Jacques Tourneur

signed by the stars

best of film noirs, screenplay by Daniel Mainwaring, adapting his own novel, Build My Gallows High, published as by Geoffrey Homes.