Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Motion picture moguls have always known that to be successful, a film must avoid plot and dialogue with an intellectual content higher than that found in the platitudes of Pa Kettle. At best, drama must be light-weight, with much false emotion and conflict of typed personalities. But the lines of patient people waiting to see Martin Luther prove that picture executives have at least as great a share of fallibility as Luther claimed for the Rope...
Misalliance, a bright union of acid dialogue and fanciful plot, serves as a scrap-book for assorted bits of Shavian philosophy. Skimming over anything profound, the play is an agreeable jumble of Shaw's acumen and nonsense. By exaggerating speech and gestures, the Broadway version has heightened the whimsey and strengthened the plot...
This farce treatment fits every absurd turn of plot. The exaggeration may not always be good Shaw, but it is consistently bouyant entertainment. An extra attraction is added after curtain calls, as Green runs through some of the top songs from his D'Oyly-Carte days...
Despite small virtues. Gently Does It falls sadly short-chiefly by falling between stools. The liveliest scenes-of marital life between Edward and the barmaid-are in plot terms the least in order, while the melodrama is severely rationed. And for a murder play, there is almost no sense of cat and mouse-something particularly needed when, right from the beginning...
...plot has curious Freudian undertones: round-faced Gale Storm, 31, and her prancing-goat TV father, played by oldtime Silent Cinemactor Charles (Seventh Heaven) Farrell, 51, spend their half-hour each week trying to keep each other from falling in love with outsiders who might break up their cozy family of two. Margie has made the jump from television (sponsor: Scott Paper Co.) to radio, where Philip Morris has it on both CBS and Mutual. It is thus the first radio and TV show to span three networks. On radio the Nielsen ratings place it third, behind Lux Theater...