Word: flashbacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some curious reason, the director started the story with the death of Bosinney and used a flashback to recount the central action of the picture. For those who had not read the book, this must have taken much of the punch out of the plot. If this wasn't enough to do so, then the astonishingly dull seript was. Some of the lines were so trite, that I felt the way an English A teacher must when his pupils read their early themes...
...wrinkle in an old face, "The Long Wait" spans the brief interval between an impending automobile collision and the death of one of its occupants. Author Daniel Ellsberg takes his central character through a dreaming flashback and unconquerable optimism before the car hurtles off the road and overturns...
Greer Garson appeared, looking 80, but luckily we soon had a flashback to her youth and she quite literally made Tito...
...same flashback, Walter Pidgeon careened down a street with horse & buggy This caused Tito to say hopefully, "Cowboys!" But we saw no more horses, and Tito slumped back, disappointed...
...counsellors and psychiatrists try to help him by erasing the scars on his mind caused by his unhappy home life. The scenes of Donald's rejection by his mother, his unhappy life with his grandmother, and his exclusion from the society of other boys, are told in a long flashback of the boy's thoughts as he sits, lonely and bewildered, on a river bank at the school...