Word: flashback
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...thrown away his delayed response and his bewildered expression, and emerges as a philosophical sort of fellow, the hero of the picture. Panamint is a town (not a chewing gum), and Mr. Ruggles is its boss (not its parson). Though it starts rather slowly, with a gloomy sort of flashback, it soon gets moving and hits a quick and gripping pace...
...Flashback. Scion of an Army-officer family, the Shah was born in 1876 in the Firuzkuh district east of Teheran. Iran was Persia then; and in the '80s Russia, which had steadily picked off Persia's northern provinces, conspicuously strengthened her position at Teheran by organizing under Tsarist officers the Persian Cossack Brigade, most effective military force in the country. This rough & tough outfit Reza, a youngster of 24, joined as a trooper...
...failure of this movie is largely the fault of bad direction. George Stevens has completely overdone the flashback mechanism, and his use of popular songs, to recall the associations through which the story unfolds, is too facile and backend to be excused...
Grappling with history, this Alexander Korda production of an R. C. Sherriff-Walter Reisch screen play moves like the flow of molasses. Possibly because the narrative is a series of flashback recollections of Lady Hamilton, reclining in prison during her alcoholic dotage, its ponderous plodding can be attributed to the senility of the narrator. All Lady Hamilton offers in her two-hour tale is an extravagant picture of court finery, a romantic rehash of the exploits of the British fleet under Nelson, a fuzzy sketch of Nelson himself, a dazzling portrait of her own staggering beauty. There is no more...
Mostly one long flashback, the picture begins with Cagney bawling out a noisy party in the next yard, whereupon a turtlenecked Yale man of the Bum McClung era, with a Y as wide as his chest, rears above the garden wall and shouts: "I'd like to give him a taste of the good old flying wedge!" Whereupon a street band blares into The Band Played On, which plumps Cagney into such a mood of reminiscence that it is a full hour until he returns to test, and best, the good old flying wedge...