Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then comes Il Trovatore. Admittedly the plot is ridiculous and the music not always first-rate. Still, there can be no excuse for this wretched production. Stereotyped sets, exaggerated dramatic sequences, and stilted love scenes class this among the worst opera movies ever made. Enzo Mascherini and Gianno Pederzini are unhappily cast as the lovers. They can't act, and their singing is strained and ugly. Even the "Miserare" becomes laughably unconvincing. By the time the picture ended, Trovatore was not the only...
...good a Junker not to enter Hitler's army when he was called up, on the strength of his World War I service, in 1940. He was released from duty in 1944, after his sister Elizabeth was beheaded for complicity in the Hitler bomb plot...
Strictly speaking there is very little plot. Franz Engel, wounded in the war and much older than his wife, is forced to depend on her completely while they await their visas in a stifling hotel in Cairo. His wife and son, Bubi, resort to all manner of strategems to obtain money enough to keep the family alive until the visas arrive. As the fight for survival becomes more and more difficult, their strategems become more and more degrading...
When World War I broke out, the U.S. Government took possession of the Common. A barbed wire fence encircled several barracks where the Naval Radio School held maneuvers. After a brief period when the plot became a playground, the second World War brought the Navy back again...
Spirits. In Birmingham. Ala., cops got a tip and rushed to a local cemetery, dug into an odd-looking grave, exhumed a 55-gallon moonshine still, uncovered its fuel supply in the adjacent plot...