Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Land. Such a performance was an old story to Jesse Clyde Nichols, long-range planner who has expanded a ten-acre plot into the Country Club's 5,000 acres with 10,000 homes and apartments, 17 schools, 15 churches, five golf courses and 50,000 well-heeled residents. Nichols, who has proved himself a top city planner as consultant on scores of real estate developments, holds strong views on city planning and architecture. He habitually forced them on customers and tenants...
This kiddie-car plot will not dismay admirers of Novelist James Hilton, who have learned that his vehicles are always freighted with something worth unloading. In Goodbye, Mr. Chips it was Tender Sentiment; in Lost Horizon it was Thrilling Adventure; in this picture it is Gripping Realism. The story, which takes place in a British mill town between wars, sets forth in sweeping Hiltonian periods the author's social beliefs; he is squarely back of good government and sanitation, strongly opposed to alcoholism...
...curtain-raiser is in the familiar Coward tradition of the London flat, the racy sophistication, and the intricate shadings of character. "Hands Across The Sea" Depends for plot upon simple mistaken identity; but it is into his people, not action, that Coward throws his efforts here. Basically a tour the forced for Gertrude Lawrence, the apparently flawless supporting cast is spread out in a half-dozen beautiful roles. Uneasy colonials, brash ladies, amorphic gentlemen all flow around the sparkling currents of Miss Lawrence's personality and Mr. Coward's lightest lines in a piece which is to the best degree...
...faith in humanity, which many people may find hard to take, is personified agreeably in Barbara Bel Geddes, who is convincingly charming and pure in her film debut. The thorn in the side of Fonda and Bel Geddes's true love, velvet-smooth Vincent Price, complicates the plot by trying to seduce the girl and torture Fonda with an induced inferiority complex. For you see, he is but a working man, who little understands the complicated nature of woman. It takes a while, but Fonda finally realizes that the ladies are as simple as he had thought, and that everyone...
...sort of literary eye dropper, pretend to contain oceans of ideas. The tedious technique might seem justified if it conveyed vivid people, or even lively situations. Beware of Pity conveys only one droplet of an idea (there are two kinds of pity: good & bad) diluted in gallons of plot...