Word: plot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jewish-Communist plot to overthrow the U. S. Government next August by the ingenious means of bringing in 150,000 Communists, mostly ex-Loyalist Spaniards. The importees would seize U. S. arsenals, take over public utilities and transportation facilities. Meanwhile, rich Jewish conspirators would unload their securities, creating financial chaos...
...Irate ever since disclosures of an alleged Nazi plot to annex arid, sheep-raising Patagonia, Argentine President Dr. Roberto Ortiz decreed the dissolution of the local Nazi Party, gave Italian Fascists, Spanish Falangists, all other foreign-directed political groups 90 days to subscribe to "democratic principles...
...early scenes, with their warm, not unhumorous account of a pre-War childhood, and their spanking pace, are fresh and alive. But despite a few touching scenes and a few impassioned ones the play weakens as it proceeds. Jerry never becomes more than a familiar symbol. The plot never slides out of the worn proletarian groove. The stagecraft-combining Living Newspaper technique with class-conscious expressionism-would once have seemed striking, today is dated...
Slighter than The Song of the World, and written before it, Harvest, a simpler, more sentimental story, has been more popular in France. Its plot withers under synopsis like a mushroom in the sun: a huge, passionate peasant becomes the last inhabitant of an abandoned mountain village, marries a stray waif, and together they begin to cultivate and repeople the abandoned land. Sample Giono description: "And today there had been rain. Like a bird it arrived, settled, and went away. The shadow of its wings had been seen passing over the hills of Néviėres. It came...
Perhaps "The Edge of the World" will not have the popular appreciation it deserves. The Public, getting wind of a dreary plot in a dreary set, may stay away in droves,--but at their own expense. They will be cutting themselves out of the truest entertainment that has flashed on American screens. Admitted, there is no racy romance, no screwball comedy in "The Edge of the World," but there is emotional strength and intellectual escape. The sterling quality of the film, lifting the audience out of itself, sweeping it on to a dynamic climax, make the picture live...