Bridgeport is the setting of the 1947 film Out of the Past; several sequences were filmed on location in the town.
Jeff is dating local girl Ann Miller (Virginia Huston), whose parents are mistrustful of Jeff, as is Jim (Richard Webb), the local law officer and a long-time admirer of Ann.
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Out of the Past was produced by RKO Pictures, and the key personnel — director Jacques Tourneur, cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca, actors Mitchum and Greer, along with Albert S. D'Agostino's design group — were long-time RKO collaborators.
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Out of the Past was remade as Against All Odds (1984) with Rachel Ward in the Greer role, Jeff Bridges filling in for Mitchum, and James Woods as a variation of Kirk Douglas' villain, with Jane Greer as the mother of her original character in Out of the Past and Richard Widmark in a supporting role.
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Joe Stephanos (Paul Valentine) is a large man dressed in a dark suit who arrives at small, out-of-the-way Bridgeport, California in search of Jeff Bailey (Mitchum).
Her other films include Out of the Past (released in the UK as Build My Gallows High) (1947), in which she plays Robert Mitchum's girlfriend; The Racket (1951); and Sudden Fear (1952).
The Man Without a Past | Out of the Past | A Little Past Little Rock | The Past of Mary Holmes | temperature record of the past 1000 years | Past life regression | Origin: Spirits of the Past | One Foot in the Past | Ghosts of Girlfriends Past | First-past-the-post voting | Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You | Trinity (Past, Present and Future) | The Past Was Faster | The Past Didn't Go Anywhere | The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords | The batobus ''Rivoli'', on its way past the Pont de Sully | Quarantine the Past: The Best of Pavement | Quarantine the Past | Past-Time Rail | Past Lives – The Best of the RCA Years | Past Lives (band) | Past Lives | Mr Bones 2: Back from the Past | Living in the Past | Journey Through the Past (film) | Henry Keane's ''Man, Past and Present'' (1899) shows a Tajik | Ghost of Christmas Past | France's unique and colorful past | For Aeons Past | Children's Past Lives |
In the prose context of most film, stichomythia has been defined as a "witty exchange of one-liners" and associated with the film noir characters Jeff Bailey in Out of the Past, Sam Spade, and Philip Marlowe.
Her work has been widely reported in the public media (Scientific American, Time, Life, New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor.) She was featured in several television programs such as Out of the Past (Discovery Channel), Discover (Disney Channel); The Nature of Things (CBC), Search for Solutions (PBS), and Tell the Truth (NBC).