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...Police found on one suspect a copy of what Scotland Yard officials called the '"S-Plot" or secret instruction issued by the I. R. A. Main points: Sabotage Britain's industrial life, join Britain's civilian defense corps to "look respectable," gain access to wartime supply depots, raise hell...
...movie cast has little substance upon which to build their characterizations. Burgess Mcredith's radical Quillery suffers especially from this limitation; Edward Arnold as the munition manufacturer is a bestial villain--which was certainly not Sherwood's intention in writing the play. Even the essential structure of the plot itself has been changed to suit movie audiences;--the pathetic attempt to tack a happy ending on a basically tragic plot detracts greatly from the dramatic force of the play...
Compared to the boredom induced by the super-patriotic outbursts of the major feature, "Ambush" is entertaining. Unlike "Wings" it does contain some acting, and although the plot is unoriginal, at least it moves quickly enough to maintain interest. Popeye steals the show...
...ordinary ships -thereby fooling the German submarines and keeping the guarantee to the Admiralty. His part in the post-War oil scramble was less heroic. When the U. S. S. R. nationalized the Baku oil fields he began to fulminate against the Bolsheviki and later, they charged, to plot. He backed Hitler in Germany, added a German residence to his English, Dutch and Swiss homes...
...astonishment at Lincoln amounted to awe. On the day his diary opens, Lincoln "quietly grinned" when he was told of a plot to murder him. When told of the generals' ambition to set up a military dictatorship, Lincoln was reminded of Jim Jett's brother: "Jim used to say that his brother was the damndest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence he was also the damndest fool...