Word: flashbacks
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...learn through a misty-eyed flashback that Blaine had fallen in love in Paris with a beautiful Norwegian girl (Ingrid Bergman) just before the German occupation, and was jilted on the day they planned to escape together. She turns up in Casablanca with famed underground leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), who is looking for two letters of transit so they can escape to America and he can continue "his work." Blaine has gotten hold of the letters from underground agent Ugarte (Peter Lorre) but vindictively refuses to give them up. The situation is complicated by the intervention of a corrupt...
...child-custody battle. His problem: to decide whether a little girl thriving in a home "superior by every standard except one -the world we live in" should be taken from her white mother (Barrie) and her black stepfather (Bernie Hamilton) and given to her white father. A lengthy flashback recounts how a young blonde divorcee meets and marries a Negro fellow worker as climax to "an ordinary, everyday, uncomplicated relationship." Thus slighting the tough and painful realities of the problem posed, the film takes aim at the usual clay pigeons and sitting ducks. But except for one brutal police officer...
...then forces her to marry him so he can pursue his interest in "instinctual behavior." He learns that Mamie's hot little hands and cold blood date back to One Horrible Night during her childhood. The Thing That Happened is revealed in a gory but awkward flashback, replete with tidy psychological insights and a long-awaited corpse...
...Paris Institute. He made Olive Trees for the French Government. It is propaganda, or was once, but it is so well done that it is chiefly propaganda for the human race. A young French Algerian broods beside his father's deathbed about his childhood, seen in flashback, and what is left of that fine early life in Algeria now. Something is left. He decides that he must go on living there...
...next job, somebody tips the gendarmes. Who? Is Belmondo le doulos, the stoolie? It looks that way until Belmondo uses the Mozart swag to triple-cross a gangland czar, gets Maurice sprung from jail, and splits a pile of G notes with his old copain. It takes a long flashback to tie all the subplots together in time for a grisly finale...