Word: alibis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take him away from his wife. She, Sheila Aiken (Claire Dodd), snubs Lady Lee. Lady Lee renews her acquaintance with the bookmaker. Garry Madison grows jealous. When the bookmaker is found murdered in a gutter, Garry Madison is held for murder. Sheila Aiken, who could have given Garry an alibi by admitting that he was at her house, refuses to do so unless Lady Lee divorces him. This horrid snarl is untangled as simply as it was arranged, by a shot of Madison's uncouth father (C. Aubrey Smith) noticing tears in Lady Lee's eyes when...
...labor recognizes this is a crucial struggle and is anxious to gain some advantage. It is afraid to retreat or to appear to be yielding. Hence the search in the last 48 hours for the usual alibi to save everybody's face. Every plan thus far has looked toward some supervision of elections to determine who the chosen spokesmen of the workers really are. Labor gains by every such device because Government supervision of elections thus far has merely meant postponing local elections till the labor organizers are sure of a majority...
Instead of using this ordinary paraphernalia "Ten-Minute Alibi" returns to the school of pure deduction, which depends for its effect on the cleverness of the criminal in accomplishing his dirty work, and upon the narrow escapes which he has in evading justice. Unfortunately, in "Ten-Minute Alibi" the criminal is not very clever, but this is made up for by the number of close calls which he has; they occur, in fact, about every two minutes during the last two acts, and after the first dozen or so one becomes distinctly indifferent about his fate. As a mystery thriller...
...crashing cad, who lures women abroad to a horrible fate--just what this fate is never becomes quite clear. Obviously, he must save poor Betty from this awful monster; but how, he does not know until he sees himself in a dream killing Savilla and establishing his alibi by tampering with the clock, so that it will appear that he was some where else when Savilla was murdered. This appeals to Derwent as a fine ideas and in the second act he carries it out, with many a near slip. Having seen him kill Savilla in his dream...
...acting in "Ten-Minute Alibi" is adequate but undistinguished; the only performance which stands out is that of Oswald Yorke as Sir Miles Standing. He also had the one good line in the play; when told that he is suspected he exclaims in amazement, "I couldn't do that. I'm a conservative!" The sets maintain the standard of excellence which has distinguished most of the plays at the Plymouth this season...