Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sprayed around the set, Republic Pictures have refused to fob off a thousand rounds of ammunition as entertainment and have turned out a refreshingly novel movie. Although the "Angel and the Badman" contains enough of the usual ingredients to satisfy any grammar school desperado, the clever and entirely feasible plot will be a welcome relief to gun-shy adults...
Besides the point of view, which is different, if nothing else, there is nothing novel about "Lady in the Lake." The plot is old hat of the most battered variety, involving, in addition to the immersed female who is never fished out for the edification of the audience, a gentleman stone dead in a shower and the hero (you) half dead and half drowned in whiskey in a wrecked automobile. There are moments of suspense, that are given a refreshing new dimension by the point of view, but they fail to save the picture from a dreariness that is enhanced...
Cast and chorus for the Hasty pudding Club's musical "Speak for Yourself" were announced yesterday as the show moved into final rehearsals for next Wednesday's opening. The plot of the comedy was inspired by the historic Myles Standish-John Alden-Priscilla Mullens Pilgrim love triangle...
...with last night" ilk. But Hope seems to have the uncanny ability of wringing a smile of some sort out of the Himsiest of material, by means of a sidelong leer, a sucer, or a facial contortion. And it's pleasant to see Hollywood give one of its standard plot formulas a genuine kidding for a change. They insist, however, upon ending it up with the customary finale for all Bob Hope pictures, and dragging out a well-known Paramount extra to give a little performance in pantomime...
...story, this time, is about a hagridden fellow (Fred MacMurray) whose WAC wife (Paulette Goddard) uses every means to dodge giving him a divorce so that he can marry his girl friend (Arleen Whelan). Most of the plot complications center around Paulette's efforts to entice MacMurray back into her bed. The three sides of this triangle are more than reasonably heartless towards each other, but they are outdone in misbehavior by MacMurray's sleek companion (Macdonald Carey), who wants Miss Goddard for himself...