Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Communist-led miners struck last fortnight (TIME, Oct. 13), González Videla sensed a Red plot to disrupt his country's economy. Announcement of the rebirth of the Comintern, the day after the strike began, set off an explosion...
Give & Take. Soon trans-Andean telephone wires were humming. González spent an hour telling President Perón about the plot. Perón quickly sent to Santiago for more details. When Cunja and Jakasa deplaned at Mendoza, Argentine police hustled them away. Perón's Government announced that both would return to Yugoslavia...
...simultaneous battles against various enemy navies and sundry social conventions. A little doctoring of the history books provided Alexander Korda with a vigorous tale about the intrigue between Nelson and Lady Hamilton, and Laurence Olivier then combined with Vivien Leigh in contributing the dramatic talent necessitated by such a plot...
...content with a disconnected cluster of acts, Mr. Daves has hamstrung his movie by injecting a series of truly fascinating coincidences into the plot. Lauren Bacall just happens to be near San Quentin when Bogy escapes, a blackmailer just happens to pick him up in a car, thereby wasting thirty minutes of story time, and the killer just happens to cheat justice by carelessly stumbling out a twenty-five story window...
...even the acting suffers from failings of the plot when situations arise which either couldn't or just wouldn't happen. Joan Webster setting to sea in a small boat with the North sea equivalent of a typhoon approaching is almost credible. The naval officer going along against his better judgment is somewhat less credible. But when they are being swept into a whirlpool with the engine completely waterlogged, it requires a stretch of the audience's credulity to accept a last minute repair job that permits the boat to chug blithely away from the whirling maelstrom. Similarly, the happy...