Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Avid Durante followers won't appreciate "The Great Rupert." The plot, a rather juvenile and absurd one, certainly confines Durante's talents, and the man himself appears less exuberant than in some of his earlier pictures...
...more flexible medium of the screen has helped the plot considerably. As the play was staged with only one set, some of the factors leading up to the complicated political plot had to be left out. In the picture, the opening and transitions are much smoother, though the possibilities of varied scenery are not imaginatively handled...
There is a great amount of humor squeezed out of the essentially trite plot of "The Amazing Mr. Beecham." The lines are witty throughout, no words are wasted, and the story is kept from lagging. Though the irrelevant comments of the Earl could be considered the theme or the raison d'etre of the movie, enough social commentary is sprinkled into the dialogue to keep audience interest alive on more than one level...
Braver men than I have tried to summarize the plot of "The Country Wife" and failed. Suffice it to say that there are three parts to the story: the first concerns a young country-bred wife (Margery Pinchwife) who is trying to escape from the close confinement exercised by her aging roue husband (Pinchwife) into the gay, loose world of London society; the second is a triangle between Pinchwife's sister, the fop Sparkish, and the wit Harcourt; the third involves the bold and unquestionably piquant attempt of one Mr. Horner to pass himself off as recently castrated, in order...
...this catching of the whole spirit of the comedy which makes the Brattle production so fine. Along with the plot, which depends exclusively on adultery for motive force, the audience is treated to a display of elegant costumes, elegant sets, and elegant epigrammatic...