Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Billy Budd is a handsome, blue-eyed, stammering young sailor who radiates innocence and good will, and is a favorite with the whole ship. The one exception is the master-at-arms, John Claggart, a figure of Mephistophelean evil, who, hating all goodness, cannot but hate Billy Budd and plot his destruction. He accuses Billy, in the presence of high-principled Captain Vere, of fomenting mutiny...
With such thumbnail plot summaries, a 56-year-old disc jockey named Reuben Bradford is selling opera to Texans. On Dallas' station WFAA, his Opera Once Over Lightly is beamed directly at "the taxi-driver who likes Figaro, but doesn't know...
...movie has a well-groomed look and shows admirable taste in the melodramas it chooses to imitate, though it gluttonously borrows more plot than it can digest...
Shelley plays Frenchie Fontaine, a New Orleans gambling queen who packs a dainty pistol just above the garter. She sets up shop in the frontier town of Bottleneck to track down the local varmints who killed her father. In the course of a plot with as many turns as her corset strings, Shelley has all the fun of acting like a trollop, then finally turns out to be a perfect lady, worthy of Sheriff Joel McCrea himself...
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...