Directors
Biography
Jacques Tourneur (also known as Jack Turner; November 12, 1904 – December 19, 1977) was a French film director known for the classic film noir Out of the Past and a series of low-budget horror films he made for RKO Studios, including Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie and The Leopard Man.
Key Films
The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution. Denied perm…
General Electric Theater: Into the Night
A husband and wife are driving on a trip to Palm Springs. They stop for gas and are kidnapped by a pair of criminals, who have just killed a store clerk during a robbery. They plan to flee to Mexico a…
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
Noir Filmography
4 films · 1947–1956YearFilmSynopsis
1947Out of the PastThe peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape…View Film →1953Appointment in HondurasOn a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a …View Film →1955General Electric Theater: Into the NightA husband and wife are driving on a trip to Palm Springs. They stop for gas and are kidnapped by a pair of criminals, who have just killed a store clerk during …View Film →1956NightfallAn innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.View Film →
