Word: plot
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Ecuador took steps to get rid of the Italian military mission which has been training her Army for 15 years. Argentina hastily sent her fleet of efficient river gunboats to patrol the river frontiers of Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil, rushed frontier guards into Entre Rios Province, where a Nazi plot was reported brewing. The entire Police Department of Buenos Aires was reorganized after the Ministers of War and Marine charged that it was not cooperating in rounding up fifth columnists...
...saintly father confessor). It had décors gorgeous enough to have come straight out of a cinemactor's dream home. Its historical accuracy was as literal, multiplex, unflagging and fatiguing as the iterations of an adding machine. It had Rachel Field's 1840 period plot about the high-minded love of Governess Bette Davis and Charles Boyer which passes into tragedy, prison and ostracism after the thrilling unsolved murder of the Duchess, presumably by the Duke...
...picture itself is somewhat less sensational than its timing. Its plot is almost as involved as a peace treaty. Cinemactress Janis is Nurse O'Neil, who stalks around rather weirdly as the hardboiled, softhearted head of a female nursing unit at the front. She has had a past and it bobs up early in the picture in the highly attractive form of her equally hard-boiled daughter, Nurse Pamela (Wendy Barrie). Pamela has just inadvertently killed a popular drunken officer by pushing him through a balustrade. She turns nurse to make amends. Pamela does not know that Nurse...
...scripts, Irna carefully abides by the cardinal plot rule of soap opera: Get your females behind the eight ball and keep them there. Irna is assisted in her work by two secretaries and a pair of literary Girl Fridays. She dictates all her material, frequently has an impassioned male remark to his sweetheart that he is happy "to have contacted her." To make sure she is right on legal and medical matters, Irna retains a lawyer and a pair of doctors. She has plunked most of her cash into annuities...
...North and South begin Civil War, Will Cantrill turns from school teaching to guerilla warfare to get to the top of the world in the quickest time possible. With a woman at the bottom of his ambitions and marshal Bob Seton always waiting to take her away, the plot preserves all the aspects of a rip-roaring melodrama and yet succeeds where hundreds have failed. "Dark Triumph," boasting a lot of new talent and some oldtimers like Walter Pidgeon and Clare Trevor is one of the better pictures to his a Boston screen this year. It has splendid acting, direction...