Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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King Solomon's Mines. Darkest Africa in brightest Technicolor reduces the hokum of H. Rider Haggard's plot to a minor hardship on moviegoers; with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger (TIME...
...Dance (Paramount) teams Fred Astaire with Betty Hutton in a talky musicomedy that takes its plot too seriously and its stars' special talents too lightly. As a war widow fighting her husband's stuffy family for custody of her son, Singer Hutton takes refuge in a nightclub and renews an old romance with Hoofer Astaire. Boy loses girl not once but twice, the child is seized or kidnaped three times, and the story is cluttered with what seems to be all the supporting players on the Paramount...
...machine he has invented to help canners sort the wrinkled peas from the smooth), Randall does not realize that somebody else is watching the sunsets when he's not around. When at last he catches the poacher on his preserve, Randall gives him the heave and the plot a twist that will require some sequels to unwind...
...Priestley's scenario may, at times, seem a bit fantastic and occasionally moves too rapidly from one incident to another, but Mr. Priestley has treated the theme of human loneliness with originality, with humor, and with pathos--with a dexterity which overshadows minor plot difficulties...
...Walk Softly, Stranger" has less plot than a poor musical. Ostensibly, it is the tale of a gambler and petty thief who attempts to reform his life. After meeting the millionairess and developing the first symptoms of love, however, he is forced to team with one of his old buddies to pull one last job, a stickup of a gambling house. He is, of course, asking for it, and "it" almost catches up with him during the last reel. In the finale, he interrupts his now full-blown romance to spend three quiet years of atonement in prison...