The Best Movie Of Each Year From 1925-2025

79. 1947 - Out Of The Past

Honourable Mentions: Black Narcissus, Nightmare Alley, Odd Man Out

Robert Mitchum was one of the greatest leading men to have ever graced Hollywood, and while he arguably excelled in darker turns as his career matured, one of his career highlights came with one of the finest film noirs of all time: Jacques Turner's Out of the Past.

Paired opposite Jane Greer and with supporting turns from Kirk Douglas and Rhonda Fleming, Out of the Past is delightfully torturous and devastatingly sexy, featuring one of the all-time great euphemistic trysts in film history, as Mitchum's Jeff Bailey and Greer's Kathie Moffat embrace in a stormy cabin as their romance reaches a crescendo.