Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having pepped up the miracle with Sentiment, Warner Brothers now adds Sensation. The gimmick is a completely irrelevant side plot about some scheming Red politicians who twirl their mustaches viciously and torture little children. I suppose the idea was to offer a double-barreled attraction, timeless religion and current politics. But these ridiculous "Aha-My-Proud-Beauty" villains remove any lingering sense of honesty from the film...
...mauling the religious theme of Fatima through the phoncy process of sentimentalizing and sensationalizing, the picture reduces it to an empty plot and a series of gimmicks. While not actually secrelegious, this is certainly irreverent when one of these gimmicks is the Virgin Mary...
When Adenauer heard about it, he was hopping mad. Even the West German Socialists, who have long been demanding unification, said that the delegation's visit was just another Communist propaganda plot. But Ehlers' "mistake" turned out just fine for the West. West Germany's people were not for a minute duped by the Red delegation...
...remember the plot from high school: after the Third Crusade, Richard the Lion-Hearted languishes in the castle of his Austrian kidnapper while Wilfred of Ivanhoe returns to England to try to scrape up ran-some money for him. But why bother with plot when there are horses and lances and axe-fights and slain knights dropping into moats like so many pebbles? The seige of Torquilstone castle is especially good. It starts in the biggest shower of arrows since Henry V, and culminates in a first-rate conflagration...
...country will delight paleolithic lovers, and the town's reaction to the final battle between Wayne and Victor McLaglen is pleasantly reminiscent of the call to arms in Tight Little Island. The scene transitions are choppy, however, and until the last half hour, which is fast-moving and entertaining, plot and action lumber along together...