Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This picture, then, is an exaltation of the man St. James, of the species Guinness. Of plot there is little, and that little will not bear too close scrutiny. Supporting players abound; they must be there, since a game of such ingenuity demands many pieces that can be moved. If the picture seems to degenerate at times to farce, are there not always buffoons ready to disport themselves at the feet of the great? Guinness' performance is the thing to be seen, to be admired, but to be copied only by one who, as St. James cautions, can maintain...
Kate's familiar plot shuttles actor-producer Howard Keel between 'Broadway and sixteenth-century Italy. Keel plays Fred Graham, battling to produce The Taming of the Shrew with his fiery ex-wife in the title role. Wisely following note for note the lead of Alfred Drake who played the part on Broadway, Keel is robust in voice and bearing...
...brace the plot, Bella and Sam Spewak, Shakespeare's collaborators on the book, provide two mobsters to luck backstage during the performance. Before they return to gangland, the thugs have stolen Porter's wittiest song, "Brush Up Your Shakespeare." Advice on love couched in the titles of Shakespeare's plays, the lyrics are studded with lines like "If she says your behaviour is heinous, kick her right in the Coriolanus...
Playwright Taylor has a nice ear for lines, a sharp eye for manners. But his heroine never quite takes shape, and his plot seems too much without being enough. But if Sabrina is only fair, H. C. Potter's staging gives it a decided fillip...
Calamity Jane (Warner) is a good picture to come in late on. In that way the moviegoer can hear a little amiable shouting by Doris Day and Howard Keel, soak up some pleasant Technicolor, and leave under the illusion that the yammering chaos of the plot is put in order by something he missed in the first reel...