Word: denouement
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...Eyes, Desire, Florida Special). It is mounted with atmospheric travel shots, big blue & white sundecks, the usual competent Michael performance. Sample line, by Sir Guy Standing: "I have reached the age of wisdom, when a pretty woman is no more than the setting for the emerald at her throat." Denouement: the jewels planted on Bernard by Dawson...
...exhibition of a police newsreel of traffic smashups. When her alcoholic brother Jackie (Tom Brown) smashes into a school bus, killing the young son of the cop who arrested her for speeding, she takes the blame and goes to jail for murder in the second degree. The denouement consists of Knox's successful efforts to force Jackie to admit his guilt. None of the crash scenes are stock shots. All were made by professional stunt people, strapped in the seats of the cars they wrecked...
...dazzling flash the whole panorama shifts, and these characters assume their new roles in the gang. Immediately preparations build up for the denouement, an outcome that can be predicted in general import, but that leaves an exhilarating suspense as to details. A final charming touch occurs when the pretty bait, bared in her shame and led off by the police, swears that she never liked any guy as much as Calvin Miller...
...Uncle Sam is closing in on the Duke with a vengeance. Tenser and tenser becomes the rack on which everybody including the audience is strung, until there comes the inevitable snap. Startling things happen in the denouement, to the staccato tune of rifle and machine-gun fire. And as you leave the theatre, slightly stupefied, you find all sorts of psychological problems of intricate relationships and true identities clamoring for solution. You also find six or sever characters impressed indelibly if somewhat confusedly upon you memory, which is saying a lot for a movie. "The Petrified Forest" is an awesome...
...plot of this latest release is weak in many places. The trailer announcing it was perfectly fair in promising that only the detective know the answer to the questions presented. The audience was able to pick out the logical villain but even the denouement at the end is almost entirely disconnected from the evidence in the proceeding scenes. Chan is also spoiling the use of Chinese proverbs as a means of building character interest and is using fourth-rate ones in the present case. The minor roles, except for Herbert Mundin who plays the part of Baxter, the butler...