Word: flashback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture poses a problem: Will the actress, director and writer forgive the double-crossing producer for picking their brains and help him make a Hollywood comeback? As each of the trio speculates on the past in flashback, he gradually comes to realize that the producer is not entirely a heel; in fact, he is sort of lovable, for is he not responsible for the swimming pools and the Oscars they have accumulated? Inevitably, the fadeout finds them again throwing in their lot with...
...Snows of Kilimanjaro is about an unhappy writer, dying of gangrene under a treeful of vultures while he thinks in flamboyant technicolor flashback thoughts about his misspent life and the stories he has failed to write. Hemingway used those flashbacks effectively to tell you a little about his writer: 20th Century Fox uses them only to sneak in one colossal scene after another. Thick and fast they come: Gregory Peck by the Seine, Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner at the bullfights and in the Spanish civil war, Gregory Peck and Hildegarde Neff splashing about the Riviera, Gregory Peck, friendly natives...
...films, animated cartoons and commentary. On its opening show, LIFE'S editors and Producer Frank Telford made a clean break with the old People by borrowing and staging the Wintergreen for President number from the current Broadway revival of Of Thee I Sing, followed it with a filmed flashback covering the seven decision-filled years of the Truman Administration and a Washington interview with Vice President (and now Candidate) Alben Barkley...
...picture embellishes the London story with a long, sleepy flashback and some syrupy romantic interest (Vanessa Brown). As a Mexican guerrilla, Lee Cobb gives an intense performance, while Richard Conte is impassioned but too dashing as the peon. In spite of a vigorously photographed ring climax, The Fighter packs little dramatic punch...
...composes his lines so that everyone but Ransome speaks in precise uncontracted English. While the effect is slightly strained, I think it adds to the general effect. Most of the performers handle the conversation well, but Robert Brooks, who has a part both in the cocktail party and the flashback speaks as though he were reciting a Shakespearean soliloquy. The other actors especially Neil Powell as Ransome manage to hold their balance, although there were a few muffs in Wednesday's performance. Excellent direction by Jewanne Tufts and Frank Cassidy make the most of the dramatic transitions...