Robert Mitchum was an American actor whose sleepy-eyed, world-weary presence defined the film noir protagonist — most completely in 'Out of the Past', 'The Night of the Hunter', and 'Cape Fear'.
Mitchum's Jeff Bailey in 'Out of the Past' established the doomed private investigator — a man who knows exactly where his story ends and walks toward that ending with eyes open — as the defining noir template for Nolan's knowing, fatalistic male protagonists.
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