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The film featured two cameo appearances by stars of Out of the Past on which the film is based: Jane Greer, who played Kathie Moffat in the first movie, plays Rachel Ward's mother (Greer held the infant Jeff Bridges in 1951's The Company She Keeps in a scene with his real life mother, Dorothy Bridges), and Paul Valentine, who played hood Joe ...
Out of the Past is one of the greatest of all film noirs, the story of a man who tries to break with his past and his weakness and start over again in a town, with a new job and a new girl. The film stars Robert Mitchum, whose weary eyes and laconic voice, whose very presence as a violent man wrapped in indifference, made him an archetypal noir ...
In 1984, she was cast in Against All Odds, a remake of Out of the Past, as the mother of the character she had played in 1947. In 1952, Greer obtained a release from her contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. She said, "When there is a good role at MGM, the producers want Lana or Ava. There is no chance for another actress to develop into ...
"Against All Odds" was created explicitly for the movie, [11] although it was based on an earlier unreleased song Collins had written in 1981. Hackford, who previously used a song for the 1982 American drama film An Officer and a Gentleman, planned the same for the neo-noir 1984 film Against All Odds, [11] which is a remake of Out of the Past.
Loaded with social commentary about teen violence and drug use, Menace II Society follows 18-year-old Caine, who's determined to escape the projects and get a fresh start, against all odds.
Against All Odds, a lost 1924 American silent Western film; Against All Odds, American video title of a 1968 British crime film otherwise known as The Blood of Fu Manchu; Against All Odds, a 1984 American film starring Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges and James Woods Against All Odds, the soundtrack from the movie
Kenny Taylor said his daughter's photo "landed in the hands of a casting director, and against all odds, she was cast as young Nessarose in 'Wicked' — an authentic wheelchair user at just 4 ...
The same company of actors, including Jesse Plemons, Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley and Hong Chau, appear in all three shorts, but it's Plemons who takes the lead as a man driven to ...