Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sharing the psychopathic spotlight with Gary Merrill, Miss Davis spends most of the film trying to kill him by one subtle means or another. After each attempt, Merrill stumbles back and tries to win her love. Although the plot is extremely complex, it is plausible and fast-moving. Merrill's tendencies towards action and violence are well balanced against Miss Davis' scheming and inner force...
...feel like a heel panning a movie about blinded war veterans, but Bright Victory isn't very good. It reels off too many unnecessarily sentimental scenes to be a good documentary. And it does not contain enough plot to make an even passable drama...
Some radio listeners last week tried to puzzle their way through Café Istanbul's chaotic plot. But others were content just to listen to the clinging, faintly accented voice of Marlene Dietrich, who opened her new radio series as the Café's owner. As she has countless times since the classic Blue Angel, Marlene played the same romantic, Weltschmerz role and whispered snatches of French and German songs. Some listeners may have felt cheated because Marlene was limited to a few choruses of La Vie en Rose and four bars of a song in German...
Marlene worries about plot so much that she stayed up with her typewriter until three o'clock one morning, pecking out 17 pages of script revisions for the first show. "She's a worker, a hard worker," says Producer Leonard Blair admiringly. "She really rolls up her sleeves. Her suggestions are very good...
Operating under such handicaps of plot, but with the help of some amusing dialogue, Nightclub Comic Danny Thomas puts remarkable warmth into a portrait of Kahn. The songwriter is pictured as an earnest craftsman of simple tastes, shy beneath a brash surface, who needed, resented and forgave his wife's constant efforts to push him forward. Actor Thomas' performance won him a four-year Warner contract before the picture's release...