Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...bird." When the shy Texas Ranger (Gary Cooper) casually rides his cayuse right into the heart of a pack of trouble in the north woods, the blonde heroine (Madeleine Carroll) tells him, "Texas must be heaven." "It will be," says he, "when you get there." Climax both of plot and of corny dialog arrives as the small outpost of Mounties, cut to ribbons by a ruthless attack of the Indians and half-breeds, hears the bugle of the approaching reinforcements. Lynne Overman, a Scotsman, ambushed with the struggling men, barks: "That will...
...that he doesn't have his troubles building "Elmer" into something more than a story from "American Boy Magazine." Ring Lardner has offered little more than an obvious plot and some run-of-the-mill dialogue. But Joe isn't interested in laughter of the mind. His purpose, stated in a beautiful little speech after the last curtain, is to hit the audience around the heart. "Elmer The Great" may be a simple play about simple people but it is fine refreshment in a troubled world...
...best Walter Wanger tradition, "The Long Voyage Home" opens new prospects to moviedom. It carries the technique of suspense beyond the stage of "Foreign Correspondent." Hitchcock's suspense is inherently melodramatic, whereas John Ford's is self-contained atmosphere, bovering over a plot of merely secondary importance. The subject of "The Long Voyage Home" is mainly an impression, a dismal portrait of futility...
trust. It bore the first onslaughts of criticism, lawsuits, public investigation by people to whom the unfamiliar monster was "a conspiracy, a dark plot born in greed."* Greedy men exist, observes Nevins, but they seldom pile up colossal fortunes. Rockefeller himself said that his great aim was "achievement," and, says Biographer Nevins, "the statement was true." He adds: "We must not forget that Rockefeller began to give as soon as he began to earn...
...wants to quit the sea and live on a farm with his mother, and a timid little one who looks after him (John Qualen); a dipsomaniacal, upper-class Englishman (Ian Hunter) trying to forget his shoddy past-also on a grim, gruff captain (Wilfrid Lawson). There is no sustained plot to occupy the men, only sporadic incidents such as a battering storm at sea, a drunken rumpus in a West Indian port with a bevy of native girls, a tingling passage through the war zone, a long-drawn debauch in London's waterfront pubs and brothels. For those whose...