Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mirror. Through the mirror--Constance--are presented the thoughts and experiences of Henri, a French soldier, his wife Denise and brother, Ferdinand, during the period of the French Resistance. The plot is in sharp focus all the way. But if the greater part of the story is concentrated, the climax is too diffuse. Instead of having a three-way plot solution in a single unified scene with Constance, the portrayal of each character reaches a separate culmination in a scene alone with her. The audience is left to wonder which of the three scenes is the more climatic...
...supposedly unconvincing disguises of Rosalind in "As You Like It"; in this case, the writer gets some humor out of having both lovers in disguises that fool nobody in the east but themselves. But the plot here too lacks effort and the promise of a reasonably funny climax is never realized. The parody on Kittredge and Coleridge footnotes comes off very well indeed...
Probably the reason these lags are so obvious is that other sequences are highly exciting. The climax occurs when the hero . . . Gene Kelly . . . turns the tables on his Black Hand captors and single handedly wipes them out; here the film is particularly good...
...York solely on the testimony of accomplices, the judge helplessly dismissed the charge against Parisi and gave him an indignant dressing-down. "The court is convinced," said the judge, "that this defendant . . . shot and killed Morris Diamond." Parisi listened with a bored air, and belched loudly at the climax of the judge's denunciation...
...Jamaica race track last week, Eddie got his answer. The day was drab, chilly, drizzly; the track was sloppy, and only 19,834 fans had turned out to watch the Experimental Free Handicap No. 1, first of the Eastern trials building up to the Derby climax May 6. The race was only six furlongs, and Owner Chenery fretted about Hill Prince's slow starts and his 124-lb. impost. His concern seemed justified when, despite Arcaro's quick whip, Hill Prince was a poor next-to-last at the half-mile post; it seemed improbable that...