Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keeping close tabs on events in his sunny capital. A good-natured man who strolls the streets of Tegucigalpa unescorted, he takes time out for checker games with newsboys, swaps gossip with all comers. It was not surprising that he knew all about the latest plot against him long before the details were published last week. Said Gálvez without rancor: "It was an adventure of boys and novices...
...along well with his neighbors in Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador, but Tegucigalpa buzzed this week with outspoken if undocumented suspicions that Guatemala might have financed the recent mischiefmaking. Last week, when the Guatemalan embassy requested safe conduct out of the country for the two Hondurans implicated in the plot, Gálvez smiled sweetly and answered: "Just be patient; meantime, give them soft beds and good food...
...hitching the plot of the man who slyly deprives his wife of her lover onto that of the man who falls in love with his mere convenience of a wife, Playwright Verneuil less enriches the enjoyment than prolongs the agony. The whole story, being almost as involved as it is predictable needs two or three buildup scenes for every one that proves at all entertaining. In spots, Verneuil fans Affairs with fairly lively comments about life and breezy cackle about Washington; as the bride, Celeste Holm is deft and bright when not forced to be coy; as the scheming...
...arrival of important visitors to both schools pushes the two principals into a crack-brained collaboration. Anxious to hide the ministry's error, they synchronize their watches and plot a schedule for two guided tours, each designed to exhibit one school at a time. This antic scheme, played to the hilt, leads to chaos, rioting and some hilarious glimpses of English public-school traditions and traditionalists under stress...
...girl (Wanda Hendrix) who is fleeing her lecherous uncle. He reluctantly takes a job with a child-hating rancher (John Mclntire), hides and feeds his charges in the nearby woods. Wanda and the tots (help him with his chores and eventually with the unmasking of a foul plot against the rancher...