Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people in mysteries are there mainly to be killed and these individual performances cannot save an unimaginative story. Even the sharpest, most perceptive acting does not eliminate a need for a new plot, snappy dialogue, and more action; Gently Does It needs a good solid shove from behind...
...their Red-led union, and denounced "that man Savage" in open-air rallies. And when Janet Jagan drafted a party declaration demanding that London abolish the governor's control powers and other constitutional checks, the Colonial Office apparently decided that it was faced with a determined Red plot to seize full power...
Roman Holiday. Newcomer Audrey Hepburn goes on a hilarious tour of Rome with Gregory Peck and Eddie Albert, as Director William Wyler adds some new twists to a popular old comedy-romance plot (TIME, Sept...
...perhaps the most damning criticism of Sabrina Fair is a brief recount of the plot. Sabrina Fairchild, daughter of the chauffer of the sophisticated Larrabee family, comes home from five years in Paris. After the French diplomatic whirl, living over a Long Island garage strikes her as a bit drab. When Sabrina finds an out by falling in love with a Larrabee son, there is the immense barrier of his wealth and her poverty. But not for long...
Since the plot idea is, among other things, remarkably wholesome, Taylor felt called upon to spice it for Broadway. The ugly head of sex does not rear, it is dragged in by the playwright with gusto. Obvious burlesque material does not buoy a sinking script, however, it merely brings the level down a little further...