Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plump woman in a peasant dress who sits in a chair telling a fairy story. Despite the dull camerawork, says Schorr, "she was a good actress and told the story warmly and simply." Next, in Schorr's monitoring, came an excerpt from a play called Red Clouds. The plot: a young man is torn between the revolutionary fervor of 1905 and the pious exhortations of his father, an Orthodox priest; he breaks away from the "evil influence of religion," curses his father, goes off to join the workers' revolt...
...Rauh, said the U.S. attorney, Hughes found a more gullible customer for his bulging file of "documents" and diary notes. Among Hughes's fantastic reports was one of a secret White House meeting at which President Eisenhower himself joined McCarthy and other Republican bigwigs to plot Red-hunting strategy. Rauh did not even question Hughes's report that McCarthy kept an arsenal of Lugers and submachine guns in the basement of the Senate Office Building. Rauh testified that he also agreed to pay "expense money" for an agent named Bill Decker...
...room and at various points in the block-long onetime movie studio that served as the stage. There, relay conductors glued their eyes to his baton and conducted the singers. Probably the most remarkable fact of all: more than on any stage. The Magic Flute's fairy-tale plot seemed perfectly at home on TV, the medium of Disneyland and space cadets (in fact, Tamino's costume resembled a space suit...
Only the Marx Brothers could have produced genuine humor from so superficial and ridiculous a plot. The story, when salvaged from moose heads, flying turkeys, and the like, centers about the attempts of Groucho's penniless producer, to get enough money for food and theatrical costs before he is evicted from his hotel room. "The show must go on" antics provide the entire plot, the rest being elaboration. As a result, the film sometimes drags and the jokes become tedious, but the movie closes with scenes so hilarions that Martin and Lewis seem low-ranking amateurs by comparison...
Once they are given a situation with some potential, the Marx Brothers tear into it with a delightful zest which makes up for much of the plot's weakness. Their skill barely saves many slapstick scenes from a fatal resemblance to televsion-style humor...