Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time span of the primary plot is less than twelve hours: from the time that District Attorney Ferguson's (Humphrey Bogart) star witness commits suicide until the trial next morning. With the only man who can positively identify the head of Killers, Inc. now a corpse, Ferguson frantically flashes back over all of his evidence to hit on a new lead...
...Nazi Party member, Admiral Canaris had headed Hitler's Abwehr, or espionage agency, from 1935 to 1943. Horrified with the party's excesses, he began using his position to plot against Hitler. He helped prospective terror victims escape, falsified reports to dissuade Hitler from invading Spain, saved the lives of French Generals Giraud and Weygand after Hitler ordered them assassinated. He and other undercover rebels kept a detailed chronology of Nazi crimes since 1933 and a card index of Nazi leaders. These and other documents, involving 2,000 Germans in the plot against Hitler, were subsequently seized...
...international code tapped out on the wall: "Bridge of my nose broken. My time is up. Send love to my wife." Next morning Lunding heard an SS man bark: "Strip off all clothes." Canaris, stripped, was led out never to return. (To humiliate the high officers in the plot, the Nazis stripped them, strangled many slowly with piano wire...
Though such indecision is often a dangerous symptom, Payment on Demand is good enough for moviegoers to care how it ends. The plot is not far removed from soap opera, but thanks to painstaking treatment and acting, it is a comfortable distance. Back again at the old tricks she discarded for All About Eve, Bette Davis plays a hateful woman as well as ever...
King Solomon's Mines. The plot (with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger) is easy to see through, but the Technicolor shots of African animals and vistas are well worth looking at (TIME...