Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Every Street's a Boulevard in Old New York. There are glittering Miles White costumes and gay Harry Horner sets. As Hazel, Helen Gallagher is an attractive, versatile and spirited malade imaginaire. And, with New York for a locale and a tour of it as part of the plot, Hazel Flagg at times achieves the welcome variety and topicality of a revue...
City Beneath the Sea (Universal-International) is the onetime pirate stronghold of Port Royal, Jamaica, which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1692 and submerged in the Caribbean by a tidal wave. Around this colorful historic event, the movie spins a modern plot about a couple of deep-sea divers (Robert Ryan and Anthony Quinn) searching for a million dollars in sunken gold...
...sees many sides of his colleagues' personalities. Mr. Morrison, it is true, seldom puts Aiken in direct personal contact with a single undergraduate. The reviewer has no idea what the outcome would have been in such a meeting, and admits that this is never necessary to the plot. He maintains, however, that Aiken's views of undergraduates in groups is one-sided and wholly out of keeping with the character portrayed. This inconsistency creates a cavity in the fictional personality uncovering the views on prejudices of the author. The artistic impression is momentarily destroyed, and Andrew Aiken no longer seems...
...book has no theme and no plot. It is a loosely chronological log of a year's journey into a wasteland of waters, in, over, and around which nature has run wild. Here and there is a condemnation of the world's race for riches, occasional criticisms of Whitehall, its taxes and its colonial policy, a warning of the growth of Indian influence along the African shore of the Indian Ocean, and a perceptible shudder at memories of a normal life in modern civilization. A.C.D. is looking for something. He says it is peace, reason, and security...
...Chaplinesque plot begins very slowly with an ex-convict deprived of employment and his passport. Desperate, the little man buys a Captain's uniform, storms into Koepenick, and seizes the Town Hall. Always jibing at stuffy authoritarian, the ersatz Captain imprisons even Mayor Obermculler, a stout buffoon played by Max Guelstorff. The mayor knows nothing of his offense, but there can be no injustice under Germany's martial law and order. He salutes and plods to jail...