Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike most melodramas, The Prowler makes its principals recognizable human beings who, despite some obvious dialogue and a few unnecessary twists of a sensational plot, stay consistently within their well-drawn characterizations. The cop is a sharp little study in malcontent, cupidity and vulgar taste; his fondest ambition is to own a motel so he can earn money even while he sleeps. Yet he is also a man in love and nagged by some decent urges. Actor Heflin fills the character to the last nuance. The woman, ably played by Actress Keyes, is a pathetic, guilt-ridden dupe who craves...
Danny Kaye soars above a petty and ancient plot to make "On the Riviera" as enjoyable a picture as any of his earlier films. He sings funny songs, mimics famous performers, plays a dual role, and lavishes his infectious charm. Beautiful, half-clothed women parade across the screen in endless procession. The color is by Technicolor and the jokes are off-color...
...plot was first used by Maurice Chevalier on Broadway in 1934, when the title was "The Red Cat." Don Ameche made a movie of its entitled "Folies Bergere" in 1941. The gimmick is Kaye, the night-club performer, impersonating Kaye, the greatest aviator since Lindbergh. The complications involve a multi-billion franc financial deal, a beautiful, half-clothed wife (Gene Tierney), and a beautiful, half-clothed dancing partner (Corinne Calvet). The plot is so involved that it deserves no more serious attention than it gets. But even its incredibility is worked for laughs...
...Snapshot Albums. We had been on patrol since dawn. It would be dark before we got home. We had two missions -to plot weather and spot ships. There's nothing to do about the shipping, of course, except to take pictures. But some day the snapshot albums showing ships which carried goods to unfriendly ports while Americans were dying in Korea may prove interesting. You could hope so, anyhow...
...brief chronicle of that christening day. The plot is perfunctory: Mr. & Mrs. Ormsby get up, dress, catch a train for New York, and are escorted to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where Mr. Ormsby takes a back seat while Mother makes an embarrassing little speech. What matters is that the streams of Mr. & Mrs. Ormsby's consciousness flow through the day as through a net, in which Novelist Wright Morris gently seines out their memories and their feelings: here & there a kicking silver act of courage, but mostly just the debris of an average bad marriage...