But You Knew That Youd See Her Again

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Y'all're like a foliage that the wind blows from ane gutter to another.

Out of the By is a 1947 motion picture noir almost a small-boondocks gas-station possessor whose mysterious past catches up with him i day when he'southward ordered to meet with a gambler.

Directed by Jacques Tourneur. Written by Daniel Mainwaring, based on his novel Build My Gallows High.

A MAN - Trying to run away from his past... A WOMAN - Trying to escape her future! taglines

Jeff Bailey/Jeff Markham [edit]

They say the mean solar day you die your name is written on a cloud.
I sell gasoline, I make a pocket-sized profit. With that I buy groceries. The grocer makes a profit. We telephone call it earning a living. You may have heard of it somewhere.
You don't get vaccinated for Florida, just you do for United mexican states.
Yous say to yourself, "How hot tin can it get?" Then, in Acapulco, you find out. I knew she had to wind up here because if you want to go due south, here's where you get the boat. All I had to do was wait. Nearly the plaza was a little cafe, called La Mar Azul side by side to a movie theater. I saturday there in the afternoons and drank beer. I used to sit down at that place half-asleep with the beer and the darkness. Simply that music from the movie next door kept jarring me awake.
And and then I saw her, coming out of the sun, and I knew why Whit didn't care about that forty grand.
I knew I'd become every night until she showed up. I knew she knew it. I sabbatum in that location and drank bourbon and I close my eyes, just I didn't recollect of a joint on 56th Street. I knew where I was and what I was doing...what a sucker I was. I even knew she wouldn't come the offset night. But I saturday there, grinding it out.
She waited until it was late. And then she walked in out of the moonlight, smiling.
I never saw her in the daytime. Nosotros seemed to live past dark. What was left of the day went away like a pack of cigarettes you smoked. I didn't know where she lived. I never followed her. All I ever had to go along was a place and time to see her again. I don't know what we were waiting for. Mayhap nosotros idea the world would finish. Maybe nosotros thought it was a dream and nosotros'd wake up with a hangover in Niagara Falls. I wired Whit but I didn't tell him. 'I'm in Acapulco,' I said. 'I wish you were here.' And every night I went to meet her. How did I know she'd ever testify up? I didn't. What stopped her from taking a boat to Republic of chile or Republic of guatemala? Nothing. How large a chump can you go to be? I was finding out. So she'd come forth like schoolhouse was out, and everything else was only a stone which sailed at the ocean.
It was a nice piffling joint with bamboo furniture and Mexican gimcracks. One trivial lamp burned. It was all right. And the pelting hammering like that on the window made it adept to exist in there.
She'south a clever little girl and she's always a hop, skip, and a jump ahead.
I don't like playing games when I'g the fall guy. You might remember that, Whit.
It was the lesser of the barrel and I scraped it. Just I didn't intendance. I had her.
Nosotros plant a little motion picture house in North Beach. We were on the run. We went to places we never would have seen in our lives. And after a while, we grew a petty more sure of ourselves. We drifted back to more familiar places. Ball parks and the race tracks. Why not? After all, there was one take chances in a million nosotros'd bump into our past.
It was meeting her somewhere similar in the first times. There was even so that something most her that got me - a kind of magic or any information technology was. I held her and we could laugh considering nosotros were together again. We'd played it smart and forgotten zero. Forgotten nix except one affair. He had followed her.
I wasn't lamentable for him or sore at her. I wasn't anything.
[to Whit] You lot liked me because y'all could utilize me. You could use me because I was smart. I'1000 not smart anymore. I run a gas station.
[to Meta] If y'all'll driblet this Junior League patter, nosotros may get this conversation down to where it belongs.
I recall I'm in a frame...I don't know. All I tin can see is the frame. I'yard going in in that location now to wait at the picture show.
You come across, I've got the files that were in your briefcase. I also know the accost of the Treasury Department. That's the theory, isn't it? Keep the files away from the Treasury boys. Salvage Whit from doing ten years in a federal pen. At present you lot correct me if I make a error...You get the files and you too get Eels' body, in case you want to proceed it from the cops...I want the affidavit that Meta put in Eels' condom when she took the files out. The lie that somebody put on newspaper that I killed a guy named Jack Fisher. Cause you lot see, I just buried him. And you don't get the gas for beingness the undertaker...And you lot won't need Whit. All you need is Meta to unlock that safe in Eels' office. I hope Meta'southward even so around.
[to Kathie] Did information technology take much persuasion to brand you say I killed Fisher? Come on, feed my ego. Tell me he beat ya, tell me he had to elevate every give-and-take out of ya.
And cheer up Kathie. You'll get out of it all right. You lot always have.

Whit Sterling [edit]

When you see her, you lot'll empathise better.
My feelings? Nigh ten years agone, I hid them somewhere and oasis't been able to discover them.
[to Jeff] You'll never be happy until yous foursquare yourself.
[to Kathie] You muddied little phony. Go on lie some more. Tell me how y'all handled things for me in San Francisco. Tell me it was all Joe's idea. Go on, Kathie, bear witness me how you're gonna squirm your way out this time. What a sucker you must call back I am. I took you back when you came whimpering and crawling. I should have kicked your teeth in. No, I'm not going to. Not now Kathie. We're gonna let the law button you effectually...You're going to take the rap and play along. You're gonna make every exact move I tell ya. If you don't, I'll impale ya. And I'll promise you one matter. It won't be quick. I'll break y'all starting time. You lot won't be able to answer a phone or open a door without thinking: 'This is information technology.' And when it comes, information technology still won't be quick. And information technology won't be pretty. You can have your selection.
[to Jeff] Await I crossed you once. I know better than to try a 2d time.

Kathie Moffat [edit]

Yous can't brand deals with a dead man, Jeff.
I never told you I was anything but what I am. You lot simply wanted to imagine I was. That'southward why I left you. Now nosotros're back to stay.
[to Jeff] You muddy, double-crossing rat.

Jack Fisher [edit]

A dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.
[to Jeff] She must be quite a matriarch. A wild goose with 40 G's...You know, for a smart guy, that Sterling certain trusts yous, don't he?
Don't try to pay me off with pitch handed to you with this cheap piece of baggage.

Others [edit]

Marny: Two things I can smell inside a hundred feet. Burning hamburger and a romance.
Meta Carson: For a homo who appears to exist clever, yous can certainly deed like an idiot.

Dialogue [edit]

Joe Stephanos: I ofttimes wondered what happened to him. Then i twenty-four hour period I'g breezing through here, and there'due south his name up on a sign.

Marny, diner owner: It'south a small earth.

Joe Stephanos: Yes. Or a big sign.

Whit: You just sit and stay within yourself. Yous wait for me to talk. I like that.

Jeff: I never found out much listening to myself.

Whit: I just want her back. When you see her, you'll understand better.

Jeff: Maybe she's only an impulsive daughter?

Whit: Then nosotros'll allow information technology become at that.

Jeff: I can allow information technology all go.

Whit: Fifty-fifty $5,000 now, and five when you bring her back...and expenses.

Jeff: Now that should accept been the first matter you said.

Whit: Find her Jeff. Bring her dorsum.

Jeff: Why me?

Whit: Well, I know a lot of smart guys and a few honest ones. And you're both.

Jeff: And what happens to her?

Whit: I won't touch her.

Jeff: Very hard girl.

Jose Rodriguez: Is in that location 1 who is not so, Señor?

Jeff: My proper name is Jeff Markam, and I haven't talked to anybody who hasn't tried to sell me something for ten days. If I don't talk I recollect. It's too tardily in life for me to start thinking. I could go downwards to the cliff and expect at the body of water like a good tourist, but it'southward no proficient if there isn't somebody you can plow to and say, 'Nice view, huh.' The same with the churches, the relics, the moonlight or a Cuba Libre. Nothing in the globe is any good unless you tin can share it.

Kathie: Peradventure you want to become abode.

Jeff: Peradventure that's why I'yard hither.

Kathie: Is it?

Kathie: You lot know, y'all're a curious man.

Jeff: Yous're gonna brand every guy you lot encounter a niggling bit curious.

Kathie: That's non what I mean. You don't ask questions. You don't even ask me what my name is.

Jeff: All right, what's your proper noun?

Kathie: Kathie.

Jeff: I like it.

Kathie: Or where I come from?

Jeff: I'm thinkin' about where we're going.

Kathie: Don't you like it in here?

Jeff: I'one thousand simply not ready to settle downwards.

Kathie: Shall I accept you somewhere else?

Jeff: You're going to observe it very like shooting fish in a barrel to accept me anywhere.

Jeff: [at the roulette bike] That isn't the fashion to play it.

Kathie: Why not?

Jeff: 'Cause it isn't the way to win.

Kathie: Is in that location a way to win?

Jeff: Well, there's a mode to lose more slowly.

Kathie: I prefer it like that.

Jeff: Chuck it in.

Kathie: Don't y'all similar to gamble?

Jeff: Non confronting a bicycle.

Kathie: Tell me why you're so hard to please.

Jeff: Take me where I tin can tell you lot.

Kathie: When are you taking me back?

Jeff: Is that why you kissed me?

Kathie: No.

Jeff: Whit didn't dice.

Kathie: He didn't?

Jeff: No.

Kathie: Then, why...

Jeff: He just wants y'all dorsum.

Kathie: I hate him. I'grand sorry he didn't dice.

Jeff: Give him time.

Kathie: You are taking me dorsum.

Jeff: There's no hurry.

Kathie: I could take run away last night.

Jeff: I'd detect you lot.

Kathie: Yes, I believe you would. You lot're glad you lot did?

Jeff: I don't know.

Kathie: I am.

Jeff: There was a little business, about twoscore k dollars.

Kathie: I didn't take information technology.

Jeff: How did you know it was taken?

Kathie: Information technology's what you meant. I don't want whatsoever matter of his or any function of him.

Jeff: Except his life.

Kathie: I didn't know what I was doing. I, I didn't know annihilation except how much I hated him. Only I didn't accept anything. I didn't, Jeff. Don't you believe me?

Jeff: Infant, I don't intendance. [They kiss]

Jeff: I didn't know you were and then small-scale.

Kathie: I'thousand taller than Napoleon.

Jeff: You lot're prettier also. [They kiss]

Kathie: Did you lot miss me?

Jeff: No more than I would miss my optics.

Kathie: You don't know Whit. He won't forget.

Jeff: Everybody forgets.

Kathie: Not Whit.

Jeff: So we'll send him a postcard every Christmas.

Kathie: Jeff, I'm glad you're not agape of him.

Jeff: I've been afraid of half the things I ever did.

Kathie: And this time?

Jeff: I'1000 only agape you might not go.

Kathie: Don't be. I'll exist in that location tomorrow. Love me?

Jeff: Mmm, hmm.

Kathie: Poco?

Jeff: What'southward that?

Kathie: Lilliputian.

Jeff: Mucho.

Jeff: Whit my friend, there'due south a one thousand thousand dames in this world. They all look like her.

Whit: No they don't. So she was here.

Jeff: According to all available evidence, she was.

Whit: Maybe you should take sent Stephanos. Could y'all find i dame in a million, Joe?

Joe: And one with forty grand.

Jeff: [after spilling a drink after seeing Kathie beyond the room] Sorry.

Whit: Picked up some nerves.

Jeff: I don't need a fissure like that whatsoever more than I need your dough, which is what I've been telling you. I missed her. The dame defenseless a boat south.

Whit: Where?

Jeff: Await, I got along before this chore. I ate good and I grew as big as yous did and if at that place'southward something you don't similar you can say so.

Whit: I just asked where.

Jeff: Chile, Guatemala...

Whit: I'm distressing. You missed her and you feel bad. I shouldn't have joked about it.

Jeff: I'll give you lot back your $5,000 and turn the task over to Stephanos.

Whit: You're on. I fire people, but nobody quits me. You started this and yous'll end it. Besides, Joe couldn't find a prayer in the Bible. You'll find her. Accept information technology easy. Take your time.

Jeff: You didn't have to kill him.

Kathie: Yep I did. You lot wouldn't accept killed him. You would have browbeaten him up and thrown him out.

Jeff: Yous didn't have to do it.

Kathie: You wouldn't have killed him. He would have been against us. Gone to Whit.

Ann: Information technology's all by.

Jeff: Peradventure it isn't.

Ann: What'll happen?

Jeff: I don't know. It'due south been a long time. I don't know how much he knows.

Ann: Don't go, Jeff.

Jeff: I've got to. I'thou tired of running. I'd better make clean this up someway. Just one thing, Ann. Do y'all desire me to come up dorsum?

Ann: Of course.

Whit: You know San Francisco, don't you?

Jeff: Aye, I was there once at a party.

Whit: Then you become effectually.

Jeff: Like the monkey and the weasel.

Kathie: I had to come back. What else could I do?

Jeff: You tin can never help anything can you lot? You're like a foliage that the air current blows from ane gutter to another. You tin't help any matter you do, even murder.

Kathie: You can't say it was that.

Jeff: I can say one thing. I buried him. What did yous tell him? Nearly us? Only you couldn't aid it, could y'all Kathie?

Kathie: He knew information technology. He looked correct into me. He knew it.

Jeff: How much?

Kathie: What, Jeff?

Jeff: I mean about Fisher. Did he await into you lot for that too?

Kathie: No, I didn't tell that.

Jeff: Don't prevarication to me.

Kathie: I didn't. I wouldn't tell him that. I wouldn't tell anyone that. I swear it Jeff. Believe me.

Jeff: Sure, certain I believe you lot.

Kathie: I didn't know what to do. I was always afraid of him, and afraid of what I'd done. I couldn't live that fashion anymore. I couldn't stand it. Jeff, I've missed you. I've wondered about you, prayed you'd understand. Tin can you empathise?

Jeff: Yous prayed, Kathie?

Kathie: Can't you even feel distressing for me?

Jeff: I'one thousand non going to try.

Kathie: Jeff.

Jeff: Look, simply get out, volition you? I have to sleep in this room. Just leave it where it all is. Go out.

Jeff: Just remember, I'm coming out of this in i piece, Miss Carson.

Meta: Exercise yous always go around leaving your fingerprints on a girl'southward shoulders? Non that I heed specially. You lot've got prissy stiff hands.

Jeff: Meta always talked about y'all like you were the ninth wonder of the world.

Eels: She skipped one.

Jeff: For me, it must be the eighth.

Eels: All women are wonders considering they reduce all men to the obvious.

Meta: So do martinis.

Eels: Your uh... cousin is a very charming immature lady.

Jeff: No he isn't. His name is Norman, and he's a bookmaker in Cleveland Ohio.

Meta: You are an idiot.

Jeff: So's he.

Meta: Y'all think so?

Jeff : Why not? He'due south in beloved with you.

Jeff: Doesn't your conscience bother you, crossing a nice guy like that?

Meta: Maybe he isn't such a dainty guy. Maybe he crosses people too.

Petey, Taxi Commuter: [after seeing Meta] Nice

Jeff: Awfully cold effectually the centre.

Jeff: Is in that location a slip up baby? Did you by any chance send your friend up in that location to find Eels dead?

Kathie: No Jeff.

Jeff: Tell me. Tell me.

Kathie: Don't Jeff.

Jeff: Don't what?

Kathie: I don't want to die.

Jeff: Neither practice I baby, only if I take to, I'g going to die last. Something slipped up, didn't information technology? They told you they were gonna knock him off, and they haven't washed it, accept they? They oasis't because I tipped him off. He blew.

Kathie: He'south all right?

Jeff: Didn't you desire him to be?

Kathie: Yes, yep, because if he died, they'll say you did it.

Jeff: You're wonderful Kathie. You lot're magnificent. You can change sides so smoothly.

Kathie: Don't Jeff. You're hurting me.

Jeff: Whit wants to get Eels out of the picture. He wants to foursquare an old account with me. Two birds together...A redhead takes me up to visit the chump who has to go. I have a drinkable. Leave my prints effectually. I leave and somebody gets him. Eels dies and the tax papers...They were in the briefcase that Meta took, weren't they? Papers go dorsum to Whit. I'one thousand the autumn guy. There's merely one thing missing - a plant. What was there to requite me a motive? I wouldn't kill a guy for a martini. Tell me Kathie.

Kathie: They fabricated me sign information technology.

Jeff: Sign what?

Kathie: An affidavit.

Jeff: Go on.

Kathie: I couldn't help it Jeff. They made me sign it. I swear I couldn't assist information technology. They said they'd find the body and tell the police I killed him.

Jeff: Fisher. Then you did tell them nearly Fisher when y'all told them I did it! Perfect. Foolproof and beautiful. That Whit tin really detest, can't he? Yous said it in one case, he can retrieve.

Kathie: I never stopped hating him Jeff. I couldn't aid myself. I was caught besides. We don't accept to be confronting each other at present.

Jeff: Aren't we?

Kathie: No, we can pause out of it. All we need is the briefcase. And so nosotros've got them, Jeff. Nosotros can get anything we want from them.

Jeff: I'd like that affidavit yous signed.

Kathie: We can get information technology. It's in Eels' office safe. We tin can brand Meta get it. We can make them exercise annihilation.

Jeff: Certain.

Kathie: Oh, Jeff. You ought to take killed me for what I did a moment ago.

Jeff: In that location's time.

Kathie: No, you won't. I've never stopped loving you. I was afraid and no good, but I never stopped, even if y'all hated me. Did y'all?

Jeff: Yes.

Kathie: But you don't at present.

Jeff: No.

Kathie: Nosotros could exist together again, in a mode we never were. We can get dorsum to Acapulco and showtime all over as though naught had happened. [They buss]

Kathie: Things are mixed upwards.

Whit: Bailey mix 'em?

Kathie: I tin't talk on the phone. We're trying to get a plane.

Whit: But you're bringing me something.

Kathie: No Whit. I can't explain now darling.

Rafferty: What practice you want?

Jeff: I want the affirmation that Meta put in Eels' safety when she took the files out. A prevarication that somebody put on paper that I killed a guy named Jack Fisher. Considering, y'all run across, I only cached him. And you don't go the gas for being the undertaker.

Jeff: What are you scared most? Joe isn't coming dorsum. He got careless and roughshod in the river. Did you hear what I said? Joe's dead, Kathie. Tin can't you detect some tears for him?

Kathie: Do you remember I sent Joe?

Jeff: Oh, you're wonderful Kathie.

Jeff: You take the frame off me. Yous pin the Eels murder on Joe.

Whit: Certain, sure.

Jeff: I get a modest settlement, say, oh, say $fifty,000. That should be enough for me to spend my waning years in Mazatlan. Not Acapulco, because I'd keep thinking nigh yous Kathie, up in that location in the women's prison house in Tehatchapie. It won't be also bad. Hills all around you. Plenty of sun. You make me nervous. You'd be happier if you let the cops have her Whit. That's what you'll accept to do. Somebody'south got to accept the rap for Fisher'southward murder. It's not going to be me.

Whit: Wait a infinitesimal. I'm non framing any woman.

Jeff: When did y'all reform? I wouldn't effort it, Whit, you're out of shape. Besides, information technology'south not a frame. She shot him.

Kathie: He was going to kill yous.

Jeff: You see Whit, self-defense. A cinch to beat. She might non fifty-fifty have to do fourth dimension.

Kathie: I'll say you killed him. They'll believe me.

Jeff: Do you believe her? Go on Kathie, tell him most Joe. Final fourth dimension I saw him, he was in the East Walker River.

Kathie: I didn't transport him after Jeff. It was his own idea.

Whit: [to Jeff] Did yous kill him?

Jeff: He slipped and fell. When I got at that place, it was too late. That's a hateful river.

Whit: He was trailin' you?

Jeff: Well, you don't get fishing with a .45 in your mitt.

Ann: Was it the same?

Jeff: I saw her and it was cipher.

Ann: She can't be all bad - no one is.

Jeff: No. She comes the closest.

Ann: Are yous going to come across her again?

Jeff: This evening for the last time.

Ann: Then look at her, await at yourself, and be very sure that at that place isn't fifty-fifty a petty bit of love left for her. And so when you find out and you know it one time and forever, send for me.

Jeff: I don't have to discover out. I know it now. [They kiss]

Ann: That's all I wanted to hear.

Jeff: You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like beloved. You have to go all the way to discover it.

Ann: You lot practice to continue it.

Kathie: Don't yous meet y'all've but me to brand deals with now?

Jeff: Build my gallows high, babe.

Kathie: No, no, we're starting all over. I want to go back to Mexico. I desire to walk out of the sun over again and notice y'all waiting. I want to sit in the same moonlight and tell you all the things I never talked to you - till you don't detest me, till erstwhile you'll love once again.

Jeff: They'll always be looking for us. They won't finish till we dice.

Kathie: I don't intendance. Just and so they find us together. If you're thinking of anyone else, don't. It wouldn't work. You're no skillful for anyone simply me. You lot're no good and neither am I. That'south why we deserve each other. [They kiss]

Kathie: Jeff, we've been wrong a lot, and unlucky a long fourth dimension. I recollect we deserve a break.

Jeff: We deserve each other.

Taglines [edit]

A Human - Trying to run away from his past... A WOMAN - Trying to escape her future!
A guy without a fortune! A girl with besides much past!

Bandage [edit]

Robert Mitchum - Jeff Bailey, aka Jeff Markham
Jane Greer - Kathie Moffat
Kirk Douglas - Whit Sterling
Rhonda Fleming - Meta Carson
Richard Webb - Jim 'Jimmy'
Steve Brodie - Jack Fisher
Virginia Huston - Ann Miller
Paul Valentine - Joe Stephanos
Dickie Moore - The Kid
Ken Niles - Leonard Eels

External links [edit]

Out of the Past quotes at the Cyberspace Movie Database
Out of the By at Rotten Tomatoes
Out of the Past at Filmsite.org

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