Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the course of his exposition of the plot. Professor Kittredge presented the salient features involved in the makeup of the characters. Of Othello he said, "He is often thought to have brought down destruction on his head by jealousy. It is not so. Othello's trouble is with his head not his heart, for he means well but has not the ability to choose". In the same manner the speaker discredited the popular impression of Iago as a smooth sly man by pointing out the absolute trust which was placed on him by Othello, and the honesty with which...
...Protocol M authentic, as the British said it was? German Communists ridiculed the idea. Sneered Soviet-licensed Berlin am Mittag: "Auntie fainted and the dachshund howled with terror as news of the plot came over the radio. . . ." But other Germans asked themselves: Didn't Protocol M check with Moscow's avowed aim to wreck ERP? Wasn't the Ruhr a logical Communist objective? If the protocol was not the gospel from Belgrade, what was the gospel...
Night Song (RKO Radio) takes the cake, or most of the frosting anyhow, for fancy plot. A rich San Francisco music lover (Merle Oberon) decides that what poor, blind, bitter Composer Dana Andrews needs, if he is ever to finish his concerto, is the love of a girl whom he can't feel is pitying him. She pretends to be blind and poor; Dana falls for her, and his genius starts boiling...
...plot can hardly be called revolutionary. A man is trying to murder his fabulously rich wife, and using a combination of hypnosis, poison, and George Couloris to turn the trick. Naturally he is conducting a Secret Amour with an earthy young damsel, and naturally the here, who would ordinarily be on his way to China, saves th Unsuspecting wife Three times from Certain Death. That a respectable film can be made with such a framework is a personal triumph for producer Mary Pickford, America's erstwhile sweetheart...
There have been some charges that the entire plot was lifted from one of the early Mack Sennett comedies. The good boys (stamped by the CCA) are battling the bad boys (Micky Sullivan's cohorts). But the good boys can't agree upon a plan of action, so they are thwarted at every turn. Eventually, just when it seems sure that the bad boys have won the day, they will be confused by some daring stratagem, and virtue will reign triumphant--maybe...