Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days of guzzling Magic Elixir to alleviate his thirst. There is a Charles Addams-type family of half-witted bandits, and a wagon train of Mormon emigrants inspired by frequent bleats on a ram's horn. But Ford fails to weld these details together with much of a plot, and relies on the second rate songs of his cowboy chorus to fill in the gaps. When Mr. Ford, like the little girl, is good he is very very good, but in "Wagonmaster" he is horrid...
...menn of a country restaurant; this is conceivably a suitable practice around which to build a witty story, but the writer merely thinks of all the words he knows that have "s" in them and substitutes the antiquated "f". If any attention at all had been paid to the plot, this piece could have been very humorous...
...parody on Shakespeare's comedy. Its humor comes from a take-off on the supposedly unconvincing disguises of Rosalind in "As You Like It"; in this case, the writer gets some humor out of having both lovers in disguises that fool nobody in the east but themselves. But the plot here too lacks effort and the promise of a reasonably funny climax is never realized. The parody on Kittredge and Coleridge footnotes comes off very well indeed...
...Sleep Till Noon" is far inferior to the author's earlier works. The plot, or rather the gimmick to which the sequence of events is tenuously affixed, is an imbecile's effort to follow the advice of his father: "'Get rich, boy,' he would say, filling his corncob pipe with cigarette buts I had had collected for him during the day. 'Get rich, boy. Then sleep till noon and screw...
Popkin Productions have taken up the crusade against the giveaway quiz program. The plot is good, the acting excellent, but the picture too long...