Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been used successfully by liberal and rightist candidates in the post-war Italian and French elections, although its versions of Western life are dishonest. The major fault of the film is in the directing; the transition between Garbo the Comrade and Garbo the Siren is to abrupt. However, the plot and dialogue are extremely amusing. People should see "Ninotchka" and get all possible laughs from black-bearded Communism of fifteen years...
...reasons easy to understand. After setting every line in place in one of the most carefully structured plays on the modern stage, it was too much to expect that the author might try to create an essentially different work of art in the new medium. Instead the dialogue and plot follow the play almost exactly, and nearly all action is within the confines of the stage set, Kowalski's flat in the French Quarter of New Orleans...
...plot is quite simple. An old man, once a leader of the Russian revolution, is arrested during the Communist purge trials of 1937, and his prosecutor uses terrifying intimidation to get a confession from him. Rubashov was one of the hundreds of old Bolsheviks whose deviation from the Stalinist "means justifies the end" philosophy meant certain death. His final hours are occupied by a challenge--he must decide between a silent, unobserved death, which would follow a confession for many crimes he did not commit, or death after a trial where he could speak out heroically against the new Bolshevism...
...Make It Legal" is a lawyer's nightmare and a layman's trauma. A Grade C boff at best, the plot concerns divorce, an old suitor, and a former husband, plus the usual welter of theatrical cliches...
Rommel, according to the story, first disagrees with Hitler over handling the Afrika Corps, and ends up taking part in a plot to kill the Feuhrer because he is so evil and insane. Rommel and his compatriots want to win the war, of course, but if they lose, they want to go down like good soldiers-not as murderers like their Nazi superiors...