Bitter or sweet, most memories become precious as the years move on.This film is a memory - and I am grateful for it.Mark HellingerDocumentary-style montages of historical events of past years (Hitler""s takeover of Eastern Europe, Mussolini""s rise o power, President Hoover and the Depression, President Calvin Coolidge""s reign, and President Wilson""s entrance into the Great War) - surveyed backwards from WWII to WWI - are accompanied by newsreel clips and by the authoritative, news-commentator voice of John Deering:[1940]Today, while the earth shakes beneath he heels of marching troops,[1938]while a great portion of the world trembles before the threats of the acquisitive, power-mad men[1935], we of America have little time to remember[1929]an astounding era in our own recent history.In the film""s infamous shower electrocution scene, hostage Riggs was tortured (strung up half-naked, doused in water, and prodded with an electric sponge attached to a car battery) by albino villain Mr.On a dark, rainy night on a shadowy street where a neon HOTEL sign blinks on and off and a Dobson""s Feed and Grain sign is prominent, an alienated, young fourteen-year-old Bart Tare (Rusty Tamblyn), with rain dripping off his face, walks toward the screen and a hardware-store window, where he obsessively and privately covets an ivory-handled gun resting temptingly there in a display.She forces the elderly peasant woman in her quarters to clean her shoes with a cloth.In an elaborate tracking shot, she walks down the village road to the outside of one of the farmhouses where she voyeuristically spies a lighted window.