Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most part, Director Gottfried Reinhardt keeps his film from bogging down in sentimentality. He gets expert help from his cast: as the heiress, Dorothy McGuire manages a nice mixture of frailty and charm; Van Johnson is surprisingly believable as the cad who falls in with a plot only to fall in love with his wife...
...delightful shenanigans of the minor players), take my advice and go home after the second act. Act Three is terrible. The "action" takes place in Maxim's ritzy restaurant and attempts to give the weary audience (the show lasts until 11:30) a picture of Parisian night-life. The plot stands still while Monsieur Lebon, in his own inimitable fashion, emasculates four songs. Then there are a couple of dance sequences, a comedy skit, and at long last the thing is over. If Lehar were alive and saw this act, he would wish he were dead...
...relationships and the development of Miss Hellman's philosophy through them take up the better part of the play's two and a half hours; one leaves the theatre with a distinct grasp of five or six rather extraordinary personalities and a vague impression that some sort of tenuous plot has been woven around them...
Perhaps the best way to describe the plot of "The Browning Version" is to imagine two books--one representing Andrew Crocker-Harris and the other his beautiful, frustrated wife--interleaved with one another. The story proceeds by turning the pages alternately in one book and the other, each new revelation of one character giving a new insight into the other. Of course, when we reach the end of both books, we discover that the books should never have been interleaved at all, and it is this mismatch that makes them both into tragedies...
MAJOR GENERAL HANS SPEIDEL, also 55, who was chief of staff to Field Marshal Rommel in France, later imprisoned for complicity in the 1944 bomb plot against Hitler, and liberated by the French army. A straight-backed man who thinks like a general but looks like a professor (after the war he taught history at Tübingen University), Speidel is the big military brain of revived West Germany. In his postwar memoirs (Invasion 1944), he showed a familiar German military rationalization-that the army would have won if it had not been stabbed in the back (in this case...