Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...risen from 161,188 to 193,924 in the last six months, plumped in favor of the ordinance. But Hearst's Herald & Express (circ. 348,543), figuring that the law might cost it some 12,000 daily street sales, denounced the whole thing as just a Mirror plot...
...shooting in London not to use fog in any more scenes, "as it is very uneven." Still another suggested putting a new writer on a story in preparation: "It would be a four-or five-week job at the most, but as long as we have such a wonderful plot, let's get a good writer." Studio executives would add the new memos to sheaves that already included orders on casting and admonitions about make-up and wardrobe tests (one actress wore too much lipstick, and another's bosom was "still too exaggerated...
...plot of this new Popkin Production is fantastically complicated. It concerns a notary public who has unwittingly signed a bill of sale for some stolen merchandise, an innocent man who tries to clear himself by finding the bill and the notary, and the thief. The innocent is murdered and the notary poisoned. In the last few hours of the notary's life a search for the poisoner ensues; it is here that the film finds its motif...
...kind-hearted gangster who can't kill his enemies but rather keeps them locked up in his cellar, Douglas plays the lead in a plot that gently parodies the gang warfare movies. Left alone, the parody would have made an exceptionally good scenario. The sex angle, however, in the form of Jane Peters, a country girl who comes to work for Douglas, imposes itself early in the plot and proceeds slowly but firmly to obscure the climax of the parody. Although Jane Peters has one moment of glory in a night club torch song, she is terribly miscast...
...second feature, "Rapture," is a foreign imitation of the American psychological drama. Its chief failing is that it combines a rather naive brand of soap-opera psychology with a very poor dramatic situation. Filmed in the Campagna region outside of Rome, the plot leans heavily on the "rapture" of Roman ruins in the moonlight and pays little attention to its main theme--the romance and disillusionment of a young girl and a sculptor. Nearly every emotional sequence in the film is hackneyed and bears the imperfections of what it plagarized from American melodrama...