Word: plot
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...threat to sue stumpy, pale Dr. Fernandez Artucio was too much for Uruguay's pride. Out of the files again came an 80-page indictment. Into the jug again went Nazi Leader Arnulf Fuhrmann and seven of his disciples. Führer Fuhrmann cheerfully admitted hatching the plot, insisted it was just a joke. After reports had been published of Nazi plans to invade Patagonia, he chuckled, he had built up the hoax to tickle the ribs of his fellow Germans in Argentina...
...plot pivots around the marital woes of a village baker whose wife seeks romance in elopement, and finally finds it in the arms of her forgiving husband. Raimu as the cuckooed villager strikes an unusually happy balance between humor and earnestness, burlesque and drama...
...plot. Oh, yes, the plot. The influence of Grimm's Fairy Tales is rather pronounced, to put it mildly. Revived are both the familiar land-of-opportunity theory and the idea that "Mother is still the whitest woman on earth." With a little more ingenuity in building the story around the songs, "Strike Up the Band" might have been a top tenner. As it is, only La Garland saves the film from hitting the mediocre level. Of course there is some flag waving in the finale, but moviedom seems to have the proper approach to the patriotic movement...
...Schubert quartets. But the method had obvious disadvantages. To those who knew the music being played, it was harrowing to hear it repeated over and over again, piecemeal, in wrong keys, with wierd and incorrect harmonies affixed to it, distorted and tortured to fit the varying moods of the plot. A score like this can never represent any very important emotional contribution on the part of a composer; at best it is a facile hashing-up of some admittedly marvelous themes. Other Hollywood composers experimented with the leit-motif system, but this failed because it gave rise to some very...
...Chicago, patient Boston's turn to live with father has arrived at last. And Oscar Serlin's production of the play based upon Clarence Day's entertaining book removes any slight suffered by the Hub in taking third place. Life With Father has but a whisper of a plot, but it is a roar of entertainment from breakfast table to breakfast table...