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...gravely dotting a huge map of Spain with colored pins: one color for Civil Guards, other colors for police reserves, airplane squadrons, cavalry, infantry, artillery. Pausing in his handiwork he told them a startling story. In Northern Asturias police had raided a secret cache of arms and discovered a plot to overthrow the Republic. The arms came from the National factory at Toledo. They had been paid for by a rich financier with the good Basque name of Echevarietta, theoretically for shipment to French Somaliland. The guns seized in Asturias were only a small part of the order. Where were...
Without women, the plot nags at the theological doubts of two younger Fathers. Suddenly all doubts vanish when a miracle seems to have cured a Father who has had paralysis. But the doubts reappear, concentrated in the person of the hero (Bert Lytell), when he learns under the secrecy of the confessional that the miracle was no miracle but only a case of courage induced by a happy dream. Since the Father Rector (William Ingersoll) has designated him to plead the case for the "miracle" and the canonization of the house's founder at Rome, Bert Lytell's faith...
...three, and many another newshawk, swooped at once on the catch-phrase the moment they heard, two months ago. that Robert Allan Edwards, 21, was accused of bashing his pregnant girl over the head in a lake so he could marry his other girl. That was exactly the plot of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. The comparison put last week's trial on the front page of practically every newspaper in the land...
...Stubbins (W. C. Fields) for Miss Bazy (Zazu Pitts) may be placed on a somewhat lower level, for Mr. Stubbins has to be lured toward the altar by the combined agencies of a matrimonial society and the succulent cooking of Mrs. Wiggs. In a picture of this type, plot means little, atmosphere and sincere portrayal of character mean everything, and in these latter respects "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" may lay claim to excellence...
...fashioned a film in which the treatment and setting subordinate the plot and acting. The story is based on an ancient legend of the Dolomite mountain-folk, that of the fatal attraction of the "blue light" which shines forth from the craggy peak of Mount Christallo, luring the young men of Santa Maria to their deaths. Only one person had climbed to the top and uncovered the secret of the mountain, a comely Italian girl, banished from the village for suspicion of witchcraft. One day a young artist, attracted by her beauty, followed her to the "light" and discovered...