Word: flashbacks
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...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...
...story, told in flashback, reports the private and professional experiences of several nurses (Barbara Britton, Mary Servuss, et al.), three in particular, who reached the Philippines just in time for Bataan. Lieut. Davidson (Miss Colbert) does her best to liquidate her love for a Medical Corps Lieutenant (George Reeves) in the name of duty. She fails. Nurse O'Doul (Miss Goddard), a handsome 110-lb. of salt-of-the-earth with an incurable penchant for sheer black night gowns, kids around tenderly with a pleas ant ex-footballing Marine named Kansas (Newcomer Sonny Tufts). Nurse D'Arcy (Miss...
...these bare bones Marquand has molded the flesh of Jeffrey Wilson's memories, turns them into vivid, detailed, often moving episodic stories. So skilfully does Marquand recapture the mood of middle-class U.S. life during the last 35 years that most readers will overlook the artificiality of the flashback technique...
...other job on the program, "Through Different Eyes," is another of the series of flashback-crime affairs, ably narrated by that ace yarn spicler, Frank Craven. It's not too tough to pick the murderer and everybody has a whale of a time making him confess. Craven's presence assures at least one good acting performance, and his supporting cast flounders along without mishap...