British directors and editors did that nonsense all the time in the 1950's and 60's and it looked awful. More annoying is that they thought they were being clever.
There is similar stutter-cutting in a fight scene in THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE. When I saw it, I was convinced the disc was defective. I played the scene muliple times to see if I could get it to play properly.
Finally, I put on the commentary track and heard the director brag about how clever he was by cutting out frames to speed up the action.
Moron.
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