Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sake of the plot, we will not question the possibility of the picture's main device, an instrument panel that can be read by a blind man. But there is no excusing Myrna Loy's crash scene in which she turns into the ship flying next to her by applying full aileron...
...gong sounded feebly, horns droned, strings quavered mistily and the curtain went up on what was supposed to be a kiosk on the Bosporus. Composer Seymour had taken his plot from Author Harrison Griswold Dwight's Stamboul Nights. A Hollywood friend named H. C. Tracy had hacked out the libretto. But, at first, words were lost while the audience gaped in bewilderment at Frederick Kiesler's setting. The kiosk resembled the turret of a battleship topped by an old-fashioned lampshade. To suggest the garden a lighting arrangement projected on the backdrop a horizontal stem and four...
...slick, entertaining film of a modern Cinderella, The Gilded Lily moves plausibly through many plot impossibilities with Miss Colbert looking extraordinarily beautiful in chic Travis Banton frocks. Fred MacMurray, onetime jazz-band leader, dark-browed and handsome in his first leading role, is obviously nervous in some scenes but does, on the whole, creditable work and will probably be hailed as Hollywood's new great lover. Pleasantly directed by Wesley Ruggles, this film just misses being a worthy successor to It Happened One Night, to which it will undoubtedly be compared...
Less ingenious in plot, less eloquent in dialog than most previous Chanecdotes, this one has three qualities to recommend it: Warner Gland's undented black felt hat; a false face which deductive-minded cinemaddicts should include in their speculations; a good shot of the Paris sewers...
...this vast throng moves eastward- some walking, some riding in oxcarts, some speeding on motorcycles, some sitting back in fast limousines-various stories unfold. The banking Jews plot to make the new state which is to rise in the Gobi into a capitalist nation. The Communist Jews insist that all property be pooled. The Socialist Jews do not know what they want. And the liberal Jews are occasionally wounded in trying to keep the Socialists and the Communists from killing each other before they have even reached the new Promised Land. Mr. Nathan seems to be protesting that there...