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Director Jacques
Tourneur's 1947 crime drama Out of the Past is widely regarded as
the exemplar of film noir classics. Robert Mitchum is the gumshoe turned
gas station owner from Bridgeport, California who's double- and triple-crossed
more times in 97 minutes than most chumps are in a lifetime. Kirk Douglas
is the antagonist, Jane Greer the femme fatale. While other film directories
and noir guides note that Tourneur's San Francisco is an ersatz one, a
Hollywood backlot version of the City, Mister SF's exclusive detective
work has uncovered an authentic location. An insert shot shows Mitchum's
character pulling up in a cab in front of 962
Broadway for a meeting with secretary Meta Carson, played by Rhonda
Fleming. Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 906 Broadway, is visible in the
shot, as are the INS Building and the Bay Bridge.
However, all of the buildings on the left of the frame in the scene are
gone. A few years after Out of the Past was filmed, portions of Broadway
between Powell and Mason were excavated for the Broadway Tunnel. Another
location, 114 Fulton Street, would be somewhere in the middle of Civic
Center, if it existed at all.
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