Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture is loaded down with a complex plot about a lieutenant (Jeff Chandler) whose top sergeant (Alex Nicol) hates him because he believes the lieutenant is responsible for the death of the sergeant's brother in a prewar trucking accident. For run-of-the-movie-mill romance, there are a couple of shapely Red Cross workers and a busty mademoiselle. All in all, Red Ball Express often bogs down in a dramatic rut when it should be rolling along in high...
...seedy sketch of a plot in no way detracts from the high pitch of excitement, sounded in the first dark scene and never lowered, even at the end. Rather, its sparsity gives the characters and the director complete freedom to handle now-hackneyed sequences with new concepts of suspense. Dialogue is kept at a minimum, and action at an unswerving peak. Close-ups, usually a dangerous gimmick, successfully convey the desired note here as the actors act natural, a rare phenomenon in modern movies...
First, he declared a state of martial law. Next, he had his police jail eleven National Assembly members whom he accused of being involved in a Communist plot, seize a twelfth on a murder charge, and arrest eleven citizens on a charge of plotting to assassinate him. The actions brought stern rebukes from a U.N. commission in Korea and the U.S. Embassy, and a flying visit from Eighth Army Commander Van Fleet. Said Rhee blandly: "There is no connection between politics and the arrest of the Assemblymen . . . The arrests will continue." Vice President Kim Sung Soo resigned in protest...
...Wild Heart (Powell-Pressburger; RKO Radio), a picturization of Mary Webb's 1917 novel, Gone to Earth, lets passion spin the plot in turn-of-the-century England. Jennifer Jones is a simple child of nature who likes to cuddle up with her pet fox. Just when she has settled down to a calm marriage with a parson (Cyril Cusack), along comes Squire David Farrar, a virile type, who whisks her off to his outsize estate. But Farrar has a crude habit of fox hunting, so Jennifer soon cools toward him. The ending is drenched in predictable melodramatics...
...this drama of early capitalism's fight with the wild west, Paramount toted a dozen has-beens, a handful of heavies, and an old engine left over from The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe up the Great Divide, hashing the plot together...