Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is a bushel of fine war photography in the "Halls of Montezuma" and some suspenseful plot development from its director Lewis Milestone (whose "Salerno Beachhead" is playing down the street). Unfortunately, it tends to deify an individual whom I consider a damn fool and a type of thinking which could stand some careful serutiny, war threat or no war threat...
...troubles with a new house. Though Blandings was short on sex appeal, it sold more than 300,000 copies and was bought by the movies. Then Hollywood, which thinks sex is so important that it created a Production Code to keep sex out, added a triangle to the plot. The Cary Grant-Myrna Loy movie was advertised with leering posters: "Does Gary suspect the wolf at the door is his best friend...
Grounds for Marriage (MGM) dishes up some farcical leftovers about a divorcee (Kathryn Grayson) on the make for her ex-husband (Van Johnson). The dialogue and plot maneuvers are determinedly labeled for comedy and remarkably scant of laughs. Since Opera Singer Grayson develops voice trouble and Physician Johnson is a nose & throat specialist with an uppity fiancee (Paula Raymond), any bobby-soxer should be able to triangulate the solution...
King Solomon's Mines. Darkest Africa in brightest Technicolor reduces the hokum of H. Rider Haggard's plot to a minor hardship; with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger (TIME...
...Plots to William Shakespeare were as pots to a busy wizard-any old tub, begged, borrowed or stolen, would do to mix the magic in. In The Tempest, for instance, the plot is the tired old story about a nobleman, bilked of his estates, who takes refuge on a distant island, and mild revenge on his enemies when they are shipwrecked there. Yet in this common vessel, Shakespeare stirred a wizard's brew of steaming language and the rich juice of 30 years' experience; the mixture mulled, at the last stir of the action, into a fine philosophical...