Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Times, Historian Winston Churchill reports a conversation he had with Joe Stalin in 1944. Stalin was much interested in Churchill's account of Rudolf Hess's flight in 1941 from Germany to Britain, but Stalin plainly believed that it was somehow part of a British-German plot to get together in an attack on Russia. When Churchill insisted that he had told all he knew of the Hess flight, Stalin was still incredulous. Churchill huffed: "When I make a statement of facts within my knowledge, I expect it to be accepted." Stalin only grinned knowingly. "There...
...Labor Party election manifesto, said Churchill, contains "an effective design, or plot-for that is a truer term-to obtain power .over their fellow countrymen such as no British government has ever sought before...
...folks: how to get the charm without the boredom. A host of modern inventions have helped turn the trick with rural life, but few productions have found the answer for As You Like It. It remains stubbornly bucolic, discursive and dawdling, with the poetry no real match for the plot...
...filmed in a forlorn, postwar Vienna, The Third Man is crammed with cinematic plums that would do the early Hitchcock proud-ingenious twists and turns of plot, subtle detail, full-bodied bit characters, atmospheric backgrounds that become an intrinsic part of the story, a deft commingling of the sinister with the ludicrous, the casual with the bizarre. But the central characters are not mere pawns in a melodrama; they are motivated people who speak grown-up dialogue and feel contagious emotions. The film's most original touch: a unique musical sound track using only a hauntingly twanging zither* which...
Thelma Jordon (Paramount), in telling the story of a fall guy, has a production polish as bright as a new dime but uses a plot that was minted long ago. Wendell Corey is a petulant assistant district attorney with an ever-loving wife (Joan Tetzel) and two movie-perfect children. But he goes on a binge and is exposed to the mature blandishments of Barbara Stanwyck, who gets him involved in a nasty murder. Corey is disbarred and Barbara dies in an auto accident over the convenient Hollywood cliff that has served as the execution block for many an offender...