Word: denouement
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...harum-scarum pal "V.R." who puts the town in a tizzy by seeming to drown in the Skunk River. Unlike Mark Twain, who allowed Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn to attend their own funeral after a similar drowning escapade, Author Kentfield arranges a highly un-Twainlike denouement. Seems that V.R. had swum the river to scare one of the town tomgirls into granting him her favors. In a third story that brakes compassion just short of tears, Ira himself leaves his mother lonely and heartbroken by bolting for the great world beyond the Skunk and the Mississippi...
...robbery itself is staged with the subtle unreality - in which dreamy calm and awful violence lie, like lion and lamb, impossibly together - that marks the real thing. And the denouement is achieved with a stroke so strong that it makes the rest of the picture seem a little weak. An Amish farmer (Ernest Borgnine), committed by his deepest beliefs to non violence, kills the last of the killers to save the life of an innocent man (Victor Mature). He drives a pitchfork into the brute's back as if he were a bale...
...This Hung-up Age. That the author cannot take any credit for originality of situation--six passengers and Beauty stranded on a brokendown bus in the middle of the desert--is no drawback in this case. The language of his characters is fast, vigorous, and funny, and the denouement is grotesquely original. In the cast, Fred Mueller as the Apache, Harry Bingham as the Hipster, James Rieger as the Poetman, and Earle Edgerton as the Tourist are superb caricatures, while Clare Fooshee and Mary MacGregor as Mrs. Kindhead and the Radcliffe student provided an equally amusing female contingent. There...
...entertain a guest. From this point on, the author's morbid inspiration slowly flickers out, and the humor of the last act consists largely of geographical jokes ("Sinning is in its infancy in Boston") and the standard Irish dialogue that is contributed by two standard Irish cops. Logically, the denouement could probably use a little more elaboration, but from the point of view of the humor it comes just in time...
...because his son, an arty young man who fancies himself a lyric poet, is mortified to tell Oxford classmates that his father is "in sport." After creaking through a whole series of domestic traumas, including a rather vapid romance between the cricketer and a barmaid, the story reaches its denouement with a testimonial to sports as the great leveler...