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(Rank-Sydney Box) HAVE occasionally wondered what ultimate fatuity a film-director might be led into through preoccupation with the flashback technique-and now I think I know. This sordid tale concerns a hangman (Eric Portman) who contrives the condemnation of his wife’s lover on a charge of murder, so that he shall have the pleasure of hanging him. But instead of beginning at the beginning, one gets the climax in the first scene and the rest is recapitulation-if one can use the word in that context.- Most of the action takes place on a barge and what Ann Todd is doing in that galley, goodness alone knows.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 543, 18 November 1949, Page 24
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106DAYBREAK New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 543, 18 November 1949, Page 24
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