Word: plot
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...original play by Robert Buckner and Walter Hart was a powerfully realistic portrayal of several interesting characters, whose development saved the drama from its unoriginality of plot. In the screen version, much of the realism remains, strongly bolstered by a good performance by Miles Mander, the father. Strictures of the Hays office have toned it down to a certain extent, but this is not its principal fault. Failure lies in the dialogue, which is often incredibly dull and obvious, and in the mediocrity of acting by Joel McCrea, Queenie Vassar (the grandmother), and Marjorie Rambeau (the mother). Ginger Rogers does...
...Dust(20th Century-Fox) is a light-hearted apologia to scores of young hopefuls whom Hollywood calls west for screen tests each year only to send most of them home again. But Hollywood gets so interested in itself it forgets to apologize. More exciting to most cinemaddicts than the plot about the waitress (Linda Darnell) and the chump football hero (John Payne) who click before the cameras will be the game of identifying the Hollywood counterparts of the wicked casting director (Donald Meek), the actor who has superannuated into a talent scout (Roland Young). In the headstrong, somewhat brassy producer...
...glasses to Beethoven's music. Thus Jean Yonnel, as Dimitri Pozdnycheff the irrestible rake, makes eyes at his creditor's wife while that gentleman removes the furniture, and reforms by going home to make love to the country lasses. American tabloid readers can fill in the rest of the plot: true love, questioned virtue, and a scheming horse-faced violinist...
...Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu and other prominent Rumanians with a newsreel of the conquest of Norway, a sequel to the Nazis' film of the blasting of Poland plugged so diligently around the neutral circuit this winter. Two days earlier the Government had nipped what it said was a plot to seize all the country's airfields, had rounded up 60 foreign "tourists"-British as well as German-in the Ploesti oil-field region. King Carol held another secret confab with Yugoslavia's regent, Prince Paul...
...Making Eyes at Me! (Universal) falls chronologically between Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love and I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby, continues Universal's minor cycle of pictures named for resuscitated song hits. Its original plot, whereby grinning Tom Brown and ululant Constance Moore salvage a swank insolvent dress shoppe by high-priced publicity and low-priced gowns, is the brain child of Columnist-errant Ed Sullivan (TIME, April...