Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simple account of the relationship between characters is enough to give away the entire plot. Robert Harris plays Edwina's husband, who is in love with his dead wife's companion, portrayed by Signe Hasso. There are also a maid and a Scotland Yard detective...
...near sundown before the lottery was over, and Ente Sila's tired, bright-eyed Ezio Conti could show Amerigo his exact plot of land. They walked to a sandy path overhung with crumbling redstone cliffs. Below on the left stretched the land of Cuocino. With a tremor in his voice for the first time, Amerigo said: "It's somewhere down there...
When we came to Amerigo's plot, Conti led the way through a hedge. There, in the middle of a small kitchen garden planted with cabbage, was a red stake marked 38. "This is where your land begins," explained Conti. Amerigo's jaw dropped. "But this garden?" he wondered. Conti answered: "It's included. Your land goes to the ditch down there. Takes in half that oak tree." Amerigo exclaimed: "The acorns from that tree will be enough to keep a pig. We will have sausage at home...
...original Craig's Wife, Playwright Kelly wrote of a woman who loved her home more than her husband and was willing to risk involving him in a murder because speaking out might threaten her home. Scripters Anne Froelick and James Gunn have dropped the murder from the plot of Harriet Craig. They concern themselves instead with a jealous woman who tries to dominate her husband. This may be the reason the movie loses headway early and becomes a tiresome wait for the worm to turn and give Joan Crawford her comeuppance...
Choice in Despair. Despite its European popularity, The Twenty-Fifth Hour is no literary masterpiece. Its plot is heavily propped with coincidence, the characters are undeveloped and its message is spelled out with "petitions" that bring the story to repeated full stops. Gheorghiu's villain, machine-age power, is neither an original nor a persuasive one. What gives the book its impact is its assembly of evidence of man's inhumanity to man, by no means peculiar to the machine...