I was all set to start THE DAY OF THE LOCUST when I heard someone dropping a package on my front stoop. It was my RKO Film Noir boxed set, and so I put LOCUST aside and quickly plucked OUT OF THE PAST from the box and put it in the DVD machine. I've been waiting to see this movie for decades.
And I wasn't disappointed. Lots of twists, turns, and double-crosses, I never knew where the story was going next, and I enjoyed not only the name actors but also wonderful new faces I don't remember seeing in movies before (Paul Valentine in particular). And was Dickie Moore just about the most handsome and soulful young man I've ever seen? I think so. I had no idea he was even in this. Last movie I remember seeing him in was LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY.
As for Jane Greer, well, she may not have had quite the sneaky moxie of Mary Astor in THE MALTESE FALCON, but she certainly ran her a close second.