Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...equipped vith engaging accessories: talented players, notably Actor Calhern, bright spots of drawing-room dialogue and the atmosphere of a period and locale seldom pictured on the screen. While distinguishing the movie from run-of-the-melodrama, these virtues do not quite offset the slackness and familiarity of its plot...
From this point on, the plot of The Young Visiters fairly races. Amiable Lord Clincham smuggles Mr. Salteena into Buckingham Palace under the alias "Lord Hyssops" and introduces him to the Prince of Wales, who is dressed in "a small but costly crown" and surrounded by "ladies of every...
...make up by writing on their first boiled duck eggs: "I'm sorry. Me too." When Fairbanks hits it with a knife, it gives off a note stolen from "Gerald McBoing-Boing" and the show is on. At this point, the sound track is cluttered with noise, and the plot filled with impossible sequences. A representative from some ministry shows up with hundreds of forms in triplicate (red tape in Socialist governments). Then the army invades with tanks and 245 soldiers (national emergency over uranium egg). And last but not least, the Navy and the Air Corps patrol the farm...
...written in a homey manner, a "Life With Father" style which is clever yet completely devoid of sophistication. Growing old is the theme, but there is no plot as such. Throughout the six scenes there is a string of incidents such as the first late date of a son, a mother's reaction to her daughter's marriage, a husband's fears before his wife gives birth...
...what they deserve in the latest Betty Grable extravaganza. "Meet Me After the Show." Experienced addicts may be able to tell this picture from her last one, but the time-worn Grable formula remains unchanged--the picture consists of five lavish dance scenes glued together with just enough plot to give the show some semblance of continuity...