Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first glance, the Randall-Rogers ruling seems reasonable enough, a legitimate application of the Mill restraint principle. But the Randall-Rogers decree has been exposed for what it actually is, a fiendish design to stamp out cycling at Harvard. The course the plot is taking is clear...
...West Point Story (Warner) crossbreeds two thin Hollywood strains: the backstage musical and the plot that glorifies the U.S. Military Academy. The result is a little monster of a flag-waving, hip-wagging movie combining the misshapen features of both. In a fine burst of freakishness, the Warners have even stuffed overage (46) James Cagney into the uniform of a West Point plebe...
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...
...diabetie, a debtor, a voice of the twenties which is no longer heard. He is assigned to collaborate with a worshipful youngster on a movie, "Love on Ice," which he calls, "An orphan child born of artificial insemination on a box office counter." As the two writers seek a plot for this movie, Halliday gradually exposes his past...
True, the traditional plague of musical comedy--weak book--is present. The dialogue is kept to a minimum, however, and the plot is a good one, as anyone from Plautus to Giradonx would testify. And what the book lacks in comedy is more than made up for in the excellence of Porter's music and lyrics, and the lavishness of Lemnel Ayer's decor...