Word: flashbacks
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...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...
...flashback, the picture tells of Williams' 1921 conviction for the killing of a Prohibition officer during a raid on a North Carolina moonshine still, his experiences in solitary and on a back-breaking chain gang, his development of a lightweight, short-stroke carbine, using only automobile and tractor axles, a fence post, hacksaw and handfile in a prison blacksmith shop.*The happy ending: his pardon...
Just about the only thing missing from this marshmallow melange of Technicolor, tunes, slapstick and sentiment is Clifton Webb, the original Pa Gilbreth, who passed on in Cheaper by the Dozen. In Belles, Webb is seen only in a brief flashback from the earlier film. Unfortunately, he and his acid personality could not be around for the rest of the movie to help counteract the saccharin goings...