Word: flashbacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what with adroit use of the flashback technique--an extremely rare thing these days--the movie scrambles to its feet just as the referee counts ten. It's a close shave, and the five o'clock shadow's still there...
...lack of it is just what makes "Double Indemnity" a distinctly mediocre film. At the very start one learns the eventual outcome from the rather clumsy method of having Neff, wounded by a bullet from Mrs. Dietrichson's gun, dictate the whole tale to a dictaphone. This flashback technique under the hands of an expert might have been fashioned into a really good flesh-creeper, but instead it merely produces a rather average film with emphasis on plot...
Most of action in "The Story of Dr. Wassell" takes place on the Jap besieged island of Java early in 1942. Use of the flashback technique to bring out the history of Dr. Wassell's life serves only to confuse the spectator. In between shots of battles on Java appear sequences showing the deuter's earlier experiences as a minor Louts Pasteur in China...
...begins with a greying head nurse (Irene Dunne) waiting in a London hos pital for the return of her son from the disastrous Dieppe Commando raid. While she waits, the picture slips with a loud grinding of gears into the flashback that takes up most of the film...
...religiopus, is being recut and updated with a new prologue for release in early summer. It deals with the persecution of the Christians under Nero, the burning of Rome. The prologue: a U.S. bomber is on its way to Rome; the rest of the film, in flashback, offers historical vindication...