Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CENTER of both this production and its plot is David Hammond, who serves as stage director while also playing Dr. Filke, the vengeful young man who is the focus of all the intrigue. Outfitted in tails and cane. Hammond looks like a Beerbohm cartoon for the endpapers of a Firbank novel. Little wonder, then, that he is exactly into the spirit of the piece...
THREE MEN ON A HORSE. Jack Gilford plays Erwin, a composer of verses for greeting cards, and Sam Levene plays Patsy, the horseplayer, in this 1935 comedy. The cast is superb, and while the plot may contain no surprises, the entire production is polished to a high gloss...
...moral romances to express unsettling notions of behavior. Characters embody not simple virtues and vices, but complex obsessions: the marquis of Orphans of the Storm personifies the insanity of decadence as surely as Hawthorne's Chillingworth contains the full perversity of hellish guilt. At the roots of his complex plot construction lie details quite at odds with the pure sentiments to which his characters aspire. His films form an elaborate psychological autobiography through the diverse characters between whom they alternate...
...circus gets there, it is met by a band of loving children who have succeeded in driving out the resident adults in order to "create their own fiction." But the misbegotten villain, greedy rancher Drag Gibson, slaughters the children and most of the circus, leaving only Loop Garoo to plot a spectacular revenge, complete with show-downs, hide-outs. Christ figures, and all the working magic of the American Hoo-Doo Church...
...snatching prisoners from concentration camps, but he has bad pains on the 8th, 17th and 26th of each month, the very days when his ecclesiastical friends used to get out the penitential thongs. To tell how he compensates for these twinges would give away a plot so complicated that the combined perceptions of Mme. Blavatsky and Krafft-Ebing are necessary to elucidate...