In love scenes [Robert Mitchum’s] curious langour, which suggests Bing Crosby supersaturated on barbiturates, becomes a brand of sexual complacency that is not endearing. Jane Greer, on the hand, can best be described, in an ancient idiom, as a hot number. James Agee’s review of Out of the Past, Time Magazine, December 15, 1947
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I found it plenty endearing thanks.
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