A man recovers his lost memories when he is forced to relive events in his dreams.A man recovers his lost memories when he is forced to relive events in his dreams.A man recovers his lost memories when he is forced to relive events in his dreams.
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John Nesbitt
- Narrator
- (voice)
Morris Ankrum
- Doctor
- (uncredited)
Donald Curtis
- Jack Stuart
- (uncredited)
Peter Cushing
- Awakening Man (clip from 'Dreams')
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Don DeFore
- Allen
- (uncredited)
Kay Medford
- Waitress
- (uncredited)
Robert Emmett O'Connor
- Diner Cook
- (uncredited)
Naomi Scher
- Nurse
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis short features a young Don DeFore (uncredited, as were all characters other than the Narrator) 17 years before he co-starred with Shirley Booth in Hazel (1961).
- GoofsAllan's Social Security Number has only 8 digits. (This probably was done to preclude the possibility of duplicating a person's valid Social Security Number.)
- Quotes
[last lines]
John Nesbitt: Many a man's mind, scarred from the shocks and ordeals of the war, will be healed and brought back to happiness when the secrets of this world of the subconscious are found out at last. For here is the unknown frontier of the passing parade.
- ConnectionsEdited from Dreams (1940)
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The Passing Memory
Don Defore is a merchant marine, rescued from a torpedoed ship. He's gone to a farm to purchase it, but he cannot remember where he put his money. Committed to a hospital, the doctor in charge performs an experiment to try to revive that memory.
It's not a very good episode of the long-running MGM series, produced and narrated by John Nesbitt. It holds some interest in the interest in psychoanalysis that was becoming popular in movies in this period; perhaps the best known example is Hitchcock's SPELLBOUND.
Besides Defore, Morris Ankrum appears as the doctor. Because, like many in the series, the actors perform in dumb show, while Nesbitt describes what happens, it's interesting as a survival of silent movie technique of the "illustrated text" method. Defore's performance is too broad.
It's not a very good episode of the long-running MGM series, produced and narrated by John Nesbitt. It holds some interest in the interest in psychoanalysis that was becoming popular in movies in this period; perhaps the best known example is Hitchcock's SPELLBOUND.
Besides Defore, Morris Ankrum appears as the doctor. Because, like many in the series, the actors perform in dumb show, while Nesbitt describes what happens, it's interesting as a survival of silent movie technique of the "illustrated text" method. Defore's performance is too broad.
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- boblipton
- May 28, 2020
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- Also known as
- John Nesbitt's Passing Parade: Return from Nowhere
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- Runtime10 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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