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)
Featured review
Lesser Entry from the Series
Return from Nowhere (1944)
** (out of 4)
One of the weaker entries in MGM's Passing Parade series has Morris Ankrum playing a doctor who spends his days treating wounded soldiers who are suffering from memory loss. One soldier can't seem to remember his past but he does remember bits and pieces of dreams so the doctor tries to re-create these dreams so that the soldier can remember who he is. This is one of the most disappointing films I've seen in the John Nesbitt series because in the end it really doesn't get anything done. We're told that this doctor has worked with all sorts of people helping them get their memory back yet we only see the one case here and I can't say it impressed me too much. The experiment had the soldier dreaming of bacon and eggs so the next time he goes to sleep the doctor cooks bacon and eggs in his room. This is just one example of what happens here but in the end it just didn't add up to any sort of entertainment. Fans will notice a young Peter Cushing playing one of the people waking up from their dream but this is just footage lifted from an earlier Passing Parade short called DREAMS (which was also used in another PP short called THE WOMAN IN THE HOUSE).
** (out of 4)
One of the weaker entries in MGM's Passing Parade series has Morris Ankrum playing a doctor who spends his days treating wounded soldiers who are suffering from memory loss. One soldier can't seem to remember his past but he does remember bits and pieces of dreams so the doctor tries to re-create these dreams so that the soldier can remember who he is. This is one of the most disappointing films I've seen in the John Nesbitt series because in the end it really doesn't get anything done. We're told that this doctor has worked with all sorts of people helping them get their memory back yet we only see the one case here and I can't say it impressed me too much. The experiment had the soldier dreaming of bacon and eggs so the next time he goes to sleep the doctor cooks bacon and eggs in his room. This is just one example of what happens here but in the end it just didn't add up to any sort of entertainment. Fans will notice a young Peter Cushing playing one of the people waking up from their dream but this is just footage lifted from an earlier Passing Parade short called DREAMS (which was also used in another PP short called THE WOMAN IN THE HOUSE).
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- Michael_Elliott
- May 9, 2011
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- 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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