Word: flashback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since this movie has been made so often, it is curious that Hollywood cannot at least make it well. The long pearl-fishing flashback puts a potbelly on the middle of the film that never wears off. Actor Granger, admirably suited to British drawing-room movies, is badly miscast. And the derring-duo, Taylor and Actress Blyth, seem, in their big storm scene, while all the screen rocks wildly, as beautiful, as smilingly unperturbed and as lifeless as a manikin couple in a sporting-goods-store window...
...wrecks of two marriages. The first, to Susan, collapses because their love is not mature enough to bridge two islands of pride. The second, to Alice, founders because they are drawn together only by loneliness, with longings too disparate for any bridge. Telling the story with an artful flashback, the novel flows smoothly to a full-circle ending, with Henry's son at Harvard and Henry's re-union with Susan in the exact setting of their first meeting...
...rank of a first secretary in the British Foreign Service and the fate of an also-ran in life. He is a bit stuffy, oldfashioned, well-liked, fond of making mildly witty remarks and coated with "a thin crust of mannerism." At the beginning of Chapter Two comes the flashback. Charles is seen as a boy, at Brookfield, where his master is the original Mr. Chips, called back for a brief return engagement. Author Hilton leads Charles through the pangs of first love with a girl whose cockney accent is acceptable because of her large violet eyes; on through...
...Advocate, so you never try." Alice looked annoyed. "Don't be silly," she said, "I always give it a sporting chance. But take that story 'Cleveland, Ohio, for instance." The March Hare interrupted, "Okay, I'll admit that parts of it were sort of childishly written, and that the flashback was confusing, but . . ." "But nothing," Alice said, "I didn't understand the ending...
...good, workmanlike thriller, I Confess, is only fair-to-middling Hitchcock. Unlike his best movies, it is often verbal instead of visual. There is a talky courtroom trial and, unusual for Hitchcock, a soggily sentimental flashback depicting a romance between the priest before he entered the church and a girl (Anne Baxter) who later marries a member of the Quebec Parliament. In the leading role, Montgomery Clift frequently appears more deadpan than stoical. Most authentic touches: Karl Malden's portrait of a hard-working detective and some real Quebec backgrounds...