Word: plot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...realistic opera, it has a singularly unrealistic plot. The story of fickle Judy, the apothecary's daughter, is nothing more than a loosely-tied string of cliches. Judy refuses to date a racketeer, name of Joe. Larry, Judy's childhood sweetheart, comes home and Judy falls in love with him again. Joe is killed in a drunken brawl and Larry is suspected. But it all works out okay, because the real murderer is found with a bloody hanky in his pocket. The unimaginative libretto by the composer's wife doesn't help...
...Island Sunset is. I think a satire on Hemingway's style. Petit uses the same short action packed sentences to build and atmosphere which would not be out of place in a Hemingway work. It is however very easy to imitate Hemingway's style without touching his character and plot development and that is all Pettit has done...
There is no plot, but between the battle scenes, four sailors team up to swap patriotic cliches and stale jokes. But the boys are never too busy to suffer for their country. One burns his hands on hot shell cases after loosing his asbestos gloves, and another dies when the ship rams a submarine. It is not clear just why he dies since everyone else on board is, at worst, merely shaken...
...earn his literary bread & butter many a novelist from Defoe to Dostoevsky has turned to the news for a fiction plot. The best of them make enduring fiction out of passing fact by drawing deep on their imagination. In Flee the Angry Strangers, Novelist George Mandel has picked a headline subject-drug addiction among teen-agers-but has given it little more than a gaping doubletake...
Also on the Beacon Hill screen are two J. Arthur Rank reissues. The Adventuress and Night Train to Trieste are both spy pictures. The former is dull plot-wise, while the acting of Deborah Kerr is even worse. Night Train to Trieste, however, is an exciting thriller, with suave international spies, beautiful women, and a comic British busybody...