Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...describes Gunsmoke as "an adult western." Each week U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon (a combination Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp, played by Bill Conrad) meanders through a script about Dodge City & environs. The things that happen, while exciting, are seldom contrived for the sake of violence or plot; they happen because Dillon and the people of Dodge City circa 1880 are merely people who face human experiences...
...sketch shuttles you through a series of students' rooms, Adams' panelled dinning hall, the Master's residence and the Radcliffe Quad. But the film is not merely a dry House travelogue; exhuberant students appear in almost every frame. Also Ivy has attempted to smooth its scene shifts with humorous plot sequences, but the transitions are still reminiscent of a newsreel...
...into any lengthy discussion of the play itself. Although it was first done in 1939, it has been produced by many amateur groups since that time, and is no doubt familiar to most theatre goers. Structurally, it is unconventional theatre. There is little suspense, and even less plot. Most of the characters are reminiscent of the Kaufman and Hart people who merely wander on and off the stage...
...Misers" was originally produced at Fontainebleau in 1770. Its plot involves the standard operatic characters, young lovers, harsh uncles, with the eventual triumph of the lovers and reform of the miserly uncles...
With enough action to make a dozen westerns, Naked Spur should entertain most everybody. The plot is no worse than any of its type. But it is James Stewart's long-legged form and drawling voice that lift the film just over the mediocre western class...