Word: denouements
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...surprised also at the contents of Steve Grey's story. The story, a death-house interview with an investment racketeer (Harvey Stephens) whom Grey's testimony has helped to convict and whose arrest and trial he has covered with breath-taking efficiency, is meant to afford the denouement of the film and, handled with more care, it might have been an exceedingly effective melodramatic twist. Unfortunately, Authors Tim Whelan (who also directed the film) and Guy Bolton built up to it poorly through the earlier portions of the picture, which develop Grey's romance with the director...
...Berlin last week the Sosnowski case finally reached its grim denouement before the People's Court. This is packed exclusively with Hitler appointees, five of them aviators. Only the Realmleader can alter its judgments, which take precedence over the German Supreme Court, kicked by Nazi New Justice into discard. Normally the People's Court lets its sentences of death be known only after the guilty heads have been chopped. Last week by a great exception underground Berlin grapevines got out word that the Court had sentenced Baroness von Berg and Frau von Natzmer to death...
...assailed by a friendly but blackmailing social-climber, she knew the fat was in the fire. She collapsed, fled to her inaccessible cottage in France to hide her shame. Who pursued her there and what happened to make everything come out as well as could be expected is a denouement that "Elizabeth's" kindly wit just rescues from farce...
...convicted. As the prosecuted Elinor Norton, Claire Trevor remains resolutely good before the advances of a clean American friend, an orchid-ridden Brazilian lover, and (apparently) a shell-shocked and otherwise unstable British husband, whose demise provides Miss Rinehart with a court-room scene and a paralleled denouement. Of all the picture's conclusions, the plainest was that Miss Trevor is worthy of better things than the forcible feeding of pap to the public...
...different as prose and poetry are the two prevailing types of detectification: 1) the shooting-&-chasing kind, with more action than plot, the denouement hidden by red herrings; 2) the novel which attempts to convey an impression of real people, leisurely, intelligent, even sophisticated, with a minimum of shock and horror. The thriller market has lately declined with a consequent rise in general interest in the more subtle type of this brand of fiction...