Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minute show on a 5½-day schedule. He cuts financial corners by using only one camera and never reshooting a scene, and he tries to write his sparse dialogue so that a sequence can be ended at almost any point without making a hash of the plot...
...four-acre plot in the London suburb of Ealing, a tightly knit little group of moviemakers is earning the reputation of turning out consistently good comedies. Curiously, Ealing Studios' non-formula films are made on a basic formula: begin with a situation that is improbable but possible, yet "not wholly fantastic." Last week Ealing's latest, The Man in the White Suit (see below), was being greeted with whoops of laughter by audiences in Manhattan. True to formula, the story is improbable but possible (it revolves around a scientist who invents an indestructible fabric), and it proved once...
...plot elaborates the Good and Evil theme, to be sure, but not nearly enough to account for the success of this production. That must be owed to the excellent acting of Jerry Kilty as Captain Vere, that of Peter Temple as Claggart, John Kerr, as Billy Budd, and to nearly everyone else in the cast, especially Paul Sparer and Paul Ballantyne, and, of course, to the directing of Albert Marre...
...good to be true, and Claggart--what motivates the man to behave so meanly? You find yourself wondering why he is in secure--but then you realize that Melville didn't think in those terms and playwrights Louis Coxe and Robert Chapman haven't worried about bringing the plot up to date psychologically...
Briefly the plot has to do with the machinations of the mistress (Dorothy Stickney) and her cohort (Lulla Gear) in trying to get the husband (Neil Hamilton) to divorce the wife (Jean Dixon). Since the management takes great pains to shroud the denouncement in secrecy, I would't give it away; suffice it to say that it is unrealistic and unsatisfying. The acting was on the whole good, particularly that of Miss Stickney and Mr. Hamilton, until the last act when no one quite seemed to know what the author had in mind. Donald Oenslager's one set was admirable...