Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these helpless mercenaries, among them his two brothers, driven away to fight a foreign war. He borrows a seal from the prince's pretty mistress and sends a plea to King Frederick of Prussia. This just and apparently omnipotent ruler puts an end to the avaricious plot of His Serene Highness, the Prince, causing this character to have a spasm of rage. Piderit and his brothers fare, for peaceful reasons, to the wide, delicious and enduring freedom...
With too much plot and 34 characters, Killers misses fire. Its message: "We are all murderers at heart...
...songs, enormous numbers of beautiful girls with too many clothes on, flocks of toe dancers who caper around the stage in wide skirts and bonnets. Equipped with dusters, they would look as if they had just jumped out of a can of glorified Dutch Cleanser. There is also a plot about Messrs. D'Artagnan, Athos, Aramis, and Porthos; they are serving the King of France to the best of their ability and making love to ladies. D'Artagnan himself makes a trip to England, to bring back a piece of jewelry that the Queen of France has given...
...Heart of a Follies Girl should not be touched with a forty-foot pole. The plot is like a last year's fresh egg. The captions are like nice round soup dishes full of soup. The girl (Billie Dove) is like a seven-course dinner in which each course is a can of condensed milk...
...musical comedy which harks back to the 1860's, and passes two acts flowing about in crinolines. The plot, as is usual, is not of great import, but what there is of it concerns the love of a Crinoline Girl for the Prince of Wales of that era. Raymond Hitchcock, who must date from at least 1860 himself, makes frantic and exceedingly long-winded attempts to inject humor into the proceedings. At times he succeeds admirably, but for the most part the humorous stretches are too long, and consequently far too thin...