Word: flashback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bewildered yet sympathetic husband of a few days, Mark Stevens is less successful. In the role of the concerned but helpless bystander, he is barely convincing. Although Stevens is a trifle too All-American and anxious, his voice as narrator in some flashback scenes is far more pleasing. Leo Genn is appropriately noble as the young healer who must fight his boss over methods for Miss de Havilland's cure. He is strong, intelligent, calm, and quite impressive...
...picture begins as Vivien Leigh, with a slug of gas and a Seconal chaser, is trying to end her life. When the neighbors break in and save her, she lapses into a flashback about life with hubby (Emlyn Williams), a prominent figure on Her Majesty's Bench. One day he introduces Vivien to a RAFfish type (Kenneth More), and her heart is soon shot down in flames. She runs away with More, only to discover that he is actually just a big wonderful boy, and that what he instinctively wants her to be is a mother...
...retrace his P.W. characters' lives, Novelist Klaas uses the familiar time-machine or flashback technique. Wyoming Schoolteacher Fritz Heine is a home-loving navigator who has never really navigated; Bombardier Robert Montgomery (pleasantly plagued by his cinemactor name) is a Texan who winds up gladly admitting that a hot pilot known only as Thunderbird. "a guy with seven Air Medals, two D.F.C.s and a D.S.C., is no ordinary nigger." The book's only homegrown villain, Colonel Condon, was booted from West Point after his third year for cheating on a French exam, now nobly carries on by bartering...
...parents' maid is a mystery that challenges Alan Duncan, just returned from Europe to manage the family's huge sheep ranch near Melbourne, Australia. Thanks to the dead girl's diary, Duncan's sleuthing takes him less than 24 hours, but an almost continuous flashback takes him over years of personal history, etched in the common memories of a whole generation of Britons who fought in World War II. Alan discovers that Jessie Proctor was an alias assumed by Janet Prentice, a World War II WREN in Navy Ordnance whom he had once...
...What has gone wrong with him? The broker asks, but before he can get an answer, Ginger takes French leave.* As the broker goes from one to another of his old soldiers, looking for the fugitive, the decline and fall of Ginger is described in five long flashbacks. For a wonder, the interruptions, usually fatal to the flow of interest, do not really interrupt; the flashback has seldom been used with such propriety and naturalness. The battle scenes are excellent, too, particularly a couple of comic ones...