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BEWARE OF THIS “DAME”:“Out of the Past” is in your future. Jacques Tourneur’s twisty, moody 1947 noir is unreeling thanks to the Film Forum. Robert Mitchum (in a role origi nally meant for Bogart) is Jeff Bailey, a former New York pri vate eye living the quiet life in small-town California while try ing to escape the past. But the past catches up with him, as it usually does in the dark world of film noir. Bailey’s particu lar demons are embodied by Kathie Moffett (Jane Greer), a two-faced “dame in a million,” and Whit Sterling (Kirk Doug las), a none-too-pleasant gangster. They’re nothing but trou ble. Virginia Huston plays Bailey’s California girlfriend and Dickie Moore portrays the deaf-mute kid who works with him at the local gas station. “Out of the Past” screens Sunday and Monday, on a double bill with Alfred Hitchcock’s “Shadow of a Doubt” (1943), at the Forum, Houston Street, west of Sixth Avenue. Info:http://www.filmforum.com.