Out of the Past
Movie Quote Quiz

Meta Carson: For a man who appears to be clever, you can certainly act like an idiot.
Jeff: That's one way to be clever! Look like an idiot.
Meta Carson: You look like an underweight ghost.

Fisher: You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.

Kathie: Don't you see you've only me to make deals with now?
Jeff: Build my gallows high, baby.

Kathie: I think we deserve a break.
Jeff: We deserve each other.

Eels: All women are wonders, because they reduce all men to the obvious.
Meta Carson: So do martinis.

Kathie: I didn't know what I was doing. I, I didn't know anything except how much I hated him. But I didn't take anything. I didn't, Jeff. Don't you believe me?
Jeff: Baby, I don't care.

Plot hole: Early in the movie, when Joe Stefanos tells Mary, the owner of the luncheonette, that he found Jeff Bailey by passing by and seeing the name on the sign of the gas station, it makes no sense. He only knew him by the name Jeff Markham. Even if he was just lying to her, he uses the same explanation when he is alone talking to Jeff. We never know how he found him.

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Suggested correction: He told Jeff that he saw him pumping gas at the station.

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