Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Allende was one of the Argentine Labor Party leaders who is 1948 were arrested and tortured by the Peron police. This was an attempt to make the leaders confess they had tried to assasinate Peron as part of a U.S. plot to overthrow the Argentine government...
...intervals, during the unfolding of this blood-brother plot, there are some red-blooded cavalry charges, Indian attacks, wild-horse chases and assorted ambushes. There is even a scene-a wagon loaded with dynamite being shoved over a cliff-that is almost as old as horse opera...
...Turning Point (Paramount) dramatizes a timely subject: a crime-investigating committee, complete with television coverage. The picture's plot is less up to date: a hard-hitting attorney (Edmond O'Brien), in the course of investigating a big-city crime syndicate, discovers that his policeman father (Tom Tully) is mixed up with the gangsters. Further complications set in when O'Brien's chum, Reporter William Holden, falls in love with the attorney's girl friend (Alexis...
...them now). In 1940, when brother Wilhelm was killed in action in Flanders, Lulu became the Hohenzollern heir in his stead. In 1944 he barely escaped the Russian advance, and almost got nabbed by the Nazis too for knowing a thing or two (not much more) about the bomb plot on Hitler's life...
...planning in a good English farce should be hasty and bumbling, and yet so surprisingly successful in its inept way that it cannot help but be funny. Here the characters schemed in the adolescent manner that you would expect in a Henry Aldrich radio program. In fact, the plot as it finally thrashed itself out was more on the American comedy plan than the English, with some completely believable people doing completely believable and often unfunny things...