Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trial had already had its world premiere at Salzburg (TIME, Aug. 31), and its plot was familiar to a good many in City Center's advance-guard audience. A bank manager (known only as Joseph K.) is unaccountably arrested one morning; from then on he whirls ineffectually from one cold hope to another, never knowing what he is accused of or who his accusers are, until, at the end. he is marched off and stabbed to death by men he doesn't know...
East of Sumatra (Universal) is a hasty assembly job on the reliable prefab plot about a white man in the jungle with two women. It makes up for its lack of big-name players by superior typecasting, and almost succeeds in hiding the fact that its characters are crude studies in black and white by keeping them almost incessantly black and blue-in Technicolor...
Showgoers know Agnes de Mille as the choreographer who jimmied ballet right into the plot of Oklahoma! and started a Broadway trend; balletomanes know her as the one who has done most to bring oldtime American themes to the ballet stage (Rodeo, Fall River Legend). Last week Choreographer de Mille was off on a new tack: with her own company of 19, she set out to test a hunch that there is room for an outfit offering dance, pantomime and song in a repertory rich in American themes...
Punctuating each scene are two lilting jazz melodies played alternately on a pennywhistle and a guitar. Although the several musical numbers are unrelated to the plot, they provide a refreshing change in the pace of the entertainment...
...citizens of Alexandra in the Union of South Africa. In a sense, every actor is an "extra" for none of them have ever appeared in a movie before. Except for the six "leads," the natives are following unaffected lives, and their reactions to the incidents of the slightly improbable plot come off with a spontaneity seldom found on the screen...