Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Glad Eden" by Jack A. Rowel '51 is a play of atmosphere and poetic lines rather than plot. The characters are Irish immigrants who have failed in the lumber business. The play enacts the destruction of their hopes for a successful life here...
...strong point of "The Magnet" is its plot, which is clever and fresh. The film moves quickly as it follows Johnny from his home to the back alloys near the docks, a biscuit factory, and the equipment room of an underwater salvage firm. He meets doctors, sailors, tramps, and street urchins in his travels. When he finally gets back home again, every element of the plot slips neatly into place...
...find it hard to believe that the part of Bill Sikes was not undertaker's establishment at which Oliver is set to work ever existed as other than a set in the J. Arthur Rank studio. The movie departs from the original in many ways, as far as the plot is concerned. It is condensed, of course, and reshaped. But not once does it depart from the spirit in which Dickens wrote the novel...
This unencumbered plot gives moviegoers a chance to learn the art of bullfighting with Stack, from its basic techniques to its intense traditions and harsh, proud standards. Actor Roland plays the professional matador with an aplomb and mature authority that appear nowhere in the cast of The Brave Bulls. He gets good support from Stack and Actresses Page and Katy Jurado, who seem more convincing as Mexican women than Miroslava. Directed by onetime matador Budd Boetticher and edited (without screen credit) by Producer Wayne's good friend, John Ford, the bullfighting sequences outdo Rossen's in stylized grace...
...mind, now includes the whole human race. She tries to escape. They close in, holding her motionless. The man on her left nods and winks to the others. A woman's coat brushes mockingly against Natalie's face. Natalie thinks that all of them are in a plot to kill her. Terrified, she asks the man next to her: "What is the last stop?" He replies with a knowing look: "End of the line...