Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...escaped with two members of the firing squad, and is living today, an indigent widow, near Stuttgart, West Germany. On Broadway, Anastasia was a financially successful attempt, made in 1954, to resurrect this legend in the dubious form of a Cinderella story, with undertones of the old amnesia plot. The play has now become a film vehicle for the resurrection of Ingrid Bergman as a major attraction at the box office. Moviegoers are likely to find the charm of these accumulated resurrections more than slightly wormy...
...standards, Woman of Rome is an unusual movie, but its grey-toned realismo is hardly a match for the novel's. In its transposition to the screen, the story retains its rather sudsy plot but has lost the perceptive insights that stitched the novel into a meaningful tale. In fleeting images, however, the movie does at times catch the heroine's fatalistic amorality, the pathos of her situation, and even the sense that this ignorant girl has capacities of emotion surpassing those of her "respectable" lovers...
...tempered Cuba, 1956 has been a violent year. In October the two top policemen of the country were shot dead (and ten suspects mowed down by the cops). Earlier, a plan to assassinate President Fulgencio Batista was nipped, a provincial garrison was assaulted (eleven dead), an army plot was unmasked and 13 officers jailed. But what was supposed to be the main uprising was still to come. Last week it began...
...Fruit. The plot of the show was nothing more than Kaye's merry Pied-Pipering through the villages, homes and affections of children in 14 countries. There were no obtrusive reminders of UNICEF's constant need for funds. The film's chief purpose, says Kaye, "is to bring to the attention of the people of the world what UNICEF is doing."* There were no shooting schedules, no rehearsals, no retakes and none of the familiar TV tinsel and dross-but a lot of unfamiliar spontaneity and holiday glow...
...stories reflects the drama-packed years that marked the national struggle against Britain, the creation of Israel as a state, or the 1948 war against the Arab League. In David's Bower by Yitzhak Shenhar there are young men in uniform and offstage gunfire, but the plot deals with a day's events in a Jerusalem boarding house-marital intrigue, religious argument, family bickering-and could just as easily have taken place in any Western capital. Two of the tales-Barhash and Hamamah-are about Arabs, not Jews, and reveal a surprising attachment for the way of life...