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...Seventh Veil (Sydney Box-Universal) is an English picture which sets out to resolve the romantic dilemmas of a lady concert pianist. It uses the relatively new medical technique of narcohypnosis as an excuse to use the old movie technique of the flashback. What is known in the trade as a "woman's picture," The Veil examines the frustrations of a basically good girl who is besieged by three far-from-perfect suitors. U.S. audiences may note that the psychiatric theme used in Hollywood's recent Spellbound has been more intelligently filmed by the British...
...lands Sagittarius right in the middle of the fifth house of Jupiter. With the stars and Teresa Wright--Isabel Drury's mother against him, the house goes up in smoke, and Cooper's spur of the moment marriage with Isabel, a Barnard girl, ends on the proverbial rocks. The flashback fades, and Morgan-Cooper banter lights up the scene to dispel the otherwise shady atmosphere of the proceedings. Cas, with a slightly overworked conscience, takes a powder to Chicago on general principles to look the situation over...
...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...