Word: denouement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protection. Then ensue several scenes at tourist camps, many of them quite amusing. The result is that the couple by gradual stages progress to New York. Then come several bewildering episodes which are inexplicable according to the ordinary rules of human behavior, but which are followed by a denouement which could hardly be improved upon. On the whole Clark Gable's acting makes the picture well worth seeing...
...grunting, intractable terror. From motives now hidden by the centuries, the King of Portugal hit on a solution-he would send the rhino to the Pope. Happily he clapped the brute on a vessel bound for Rome. But en route the rhino, disdainful of King & Pope, provided its own denouement. Running amok, it battered through the hull, sank the ship...
...once dispatched to the Hague summoning Sherlock Holmes, containing the declaration "money is no object." Intercepting this, the two Americans change their disguise to that of the English detective and his medical friend. They then "discover" the girl and collect the reward. There are other complications the denouement of which is that love triumphs over economics in match-making activities...
Occasional enlivening dialogue and several situations, centering about the telephone, however, add to the effectiveness. But the denouement is completely inadequate and disappointing. The entire audience waited several minutes after the curtain fell on the last act before it realized that the many questions brought up in the course of the play would have to remain unanswered...
...cannot bear to put it aside for a moment. No matter what one's personal reactions are to Wilfred's recantation in the desert, to Dinny's falling in love with him despite everyone's disapproval, to Jack Muskham's meddling in their affairs to picture any other denouement. The answer to the riddle apparently is that "the leopard cannot change his spots...