Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...responsible for televising-this mildly Chekhovian drama: Producer Charles Russell, 32, and Director Sidney Lumet, 27. As ex-actors (Lumet was a child player in the 1935 Broadway hit, Dead End), they are more interested in character than plot, and Danger is chiefly distinguished for fine camera work, the haunting theme music of Guitarist Tony Mottola, and a leaning toward psychological melodrama. Disconcerted by the response to The Lady on the Rock, Russell & Lumet may call a halt to further experiments in realism, get back in the groove with the uncomplicated mayhem and murder that are the staple...
...plot was old when Hope was merely hopeful; he has used most of the situations himself many times before, and even the title owes a debt to one of his earlier films, 1942's My Favorite Blonde. But for all these heavy mortgages, Hope and his five writers pay a good rate of comic interest: rapid-fire gags, uproarious burleyque bits such as those that enrich Broadway's current Top Banana, and an oldfashioned, helter-skelter movie chase in which Hedy drives a fire truck through old Tangier with Hope perilously clinging to its raised ladder...
...heavy with literary references, the play started out merely as a blend of Rand McNally with the Five Foot Shelf. But The Grand Tour was easier to take with no plot at all than with the one it acquired. It closed after eight performances, an example of what happens when an established playwright won't face the fact that he has nothing...
...misled by the title of this one. Although advertisements say that "M-G-M presents the mystery of a missing person" there is actually no mystery at all, and everyone is well accounted for. The man with the cloak is Joseph Cotten, a dapper, frustrated poet, who foils a plot on the life and fortune of an old millionaire-actor...
Although the movie's plot is obviously old and painfully slow-moving, at least the dialogue is often witty. The only excitement occurs when Cotten engages in a tumble-downstairs fight over the will with the grisly butler...