Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sent down" from Oxford, fired from a few jobs, and fined in court for a trivial offense. Not satisfied with all this, Harrison drives through at least four women, a small fortune, and some international auto races, finally ending up as a war casualty. The plot is simple, little more than the above, and enjoyable...
...simply the National Gallery of Art, and his wish was officially respected.* But four years ago, some of Mellon's Pittsburgh friends decided that he had been anonymous long enough. They raised more than $300,000 and commissioned architects to design a tribute. Last week, on a triangular plot across from the Gallery, a classically simple bronze fountain was dedicated. A nearby bench of granite bears the inscription: "Andrew W. Mellon. Financier-Industralist-Statesman . . . This fountain is a tribute from friends...
High Treason (J. Arthur Rank; Pacemaker) wrings a good deal of bang-up drama from a spy plot in which enemy agents conspire to blow up England's strategic power plants. The picture is a solo effort of Britain's talented Director Roy Boulting, who, with his twin brother John, made the taut 1950 thriller Seven Days to Noon, about a demented atom scientist's attempt to destroy London...
...camera-wise direction the picture mostly crackles with pseudo-documentary excitement. The spectacular climax, as the saboteurs try to take over massive Battersea power station, was filmed at the actual locale among a futuristic welter of catwalks, dynamos and generating equipment. And Director Boulting gives the fanciful plot a realistic look with the odd British types who get tangled up in the titanic chase...
...strange emotionless race from outer space. These visitors would much prefer to take over in the manner of Communists, craftily and without violence. They get the lowly manager of an unemployment agency to teach them how to make like Earthlings. This fellow teaches them compassion, and thus foils the plot. But alas, these poor visitors were never taught how deceitful we Earthlings really are, and they must "go down beneath the ravening fury of rending and destroying man always displays when he meets his ideal face to face." Thus we are robbed of a happy ending after...