Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from a palatial home, when actually she lives just across the street from his plumbing shop. Naturally, this mistake leads to complications. After several reels of hot & cold running gags, the complications are cleared up, but by then this little plumbing romp has sprung a good many scenario leaks...
Belles on Their Toes (20th Century-Fox), a sequel to 1950's successful Cheaper by the Dozen* is, like most follow-ups, somewhat of a letdown. Present once more are Efficiency Expert Lillian Gilbreth (Myrna Loy) and her twelve lovable but strenuous children. The rambling scenario, in a flashback to the Pierce-Arrow and Charleston days of the '20s, focuses on the girls of the family...
...often happens in whodunits, the plot gets derailed at its destination. But on the way the picture rattles along at an exciting express clip. The movie plays fresh variations on a familiar theme in a lean scenario, pungent performances and inventive direction: a gangster car pacing the train is menacingly mirrored in compartment windows as backdrop to the slam-bang action; the cramped train settings are put to striking dramatic effect through expert camera work and cutting. Refreshingly, there are convincing sound effects and no hammering musical score...
...million dollars in gems from the China Sea. Despite assault & battery, murder, a shipwreck, a typhoon and chases through catacombs and jungles, he succeeds in salvaging the treasure and Ruth Roman, too. Neither Errol's deeds of derring-do nor some vigorous direction can salvage the farfetched scenario...
...year ago Hughes fired a writer named Paul Jarrico, suspected of being a Communist, junked his work on The Las Vegas Story and got a new scenario. Jarrico demanded part screen credit or $5,000, and the Screen Writers' Guild backed him. But Hughes filed suit against Jarrico, claiming that he had violated the morals clause of his contract by refusing to tell a congressional committee whether he was a Red. Jarrico countered with a $350,000 damage suit. Hughes's "personal acts and conduct," he said, "are in constant violation of generally accepted public 'conventions...