Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strikes everywhere. No one, from Lords to chambermaids, is safe. A big London paper sends out its ace reporter to uncover this plot to overthrow British bachelorhood, only to have him fall under its evil influence...
Excluding photographic prowess, Hollywood can have its long yearned for laugh on its English rival. Rank has taken every old, well thumbed plot ever devised by the molding brains of Hollywood's script writers, and presented them so horribly that the picture should discourage anyone from ever touching them again...
...message from Konvalinka scotching the Reds' late, lame explanation that the train had been "kidnaped by U.S agents." Wrote Konvalinka: "My countrymen, I beg you not to believe Americans were involved. It is just one more of the many lies . . . No, there were no terrorists, no secret foreign plot. The only terrorists are the Communists; the only foreigners are those from Russia...
Timely Roundup. The revolt fell so flat that some observers jumped to the conclusion that Perón himself had faked it all to whip up the vote for November's election. That was unlikely. More probably, the plot was genuine but had been allowed to develop with Perón's knowledge while countermeasures were prepared...
...takes everything with deadly seriousness-from a fistfight in which not a blow is struck to the shattering moment when he and Murphy overhear a general describe their regiment as worthless, just before giving the boys a pep talk and ordering them to attack. With no more continuity or plot than the battle it describes, Red Badge is mostly memorable for its tight vignettes of human confusion. It ends on an appropriately ironic note: the jubilant regiment, having driven back the Confederates, learns that its hard fighting had little effect on the course of the action; the main part...