Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adapted by Director David (Great Expectations') Lean and Novelist H. E. Bates from the Broadway success, The Time of the Cuckoo, the script has dropped overboard many of the plot gimmicks that Playwright Arthur Laurents used as cogs for stage action. With them go some of the harsher truths about the career girl's character and therefore any possibility of comparing Hepburn's performance with that of Shirley Booth in the stage play. The movie is scarcely more than a charming idyl, and it ends only because Kate is convinced that "All my life...
...plot turns upon a lost diamond of great price, but mostly the film is a string of lively, unrelated escapades. Granger plays the picaresque gentleman with style, and seems equally at home embracing a flamenco dancer, dodging thrown knives, or winning a duel with a halberd-swinging smuggler. Jon Whiteley, who distinguished himself in last year's The Little Kidnappers (TIME, Sept. 6), proves again that Britain still has the world monopoly on believable child stars...
...year ago the candidate would probably have been Odria's close friend, General Zenón Noriega. But last fall Noriega, impatient to be boss, hatched an ill-timed plot; he now lives obscurely in Argentine exile. The unrest that followed may have helped convince Odria that his successor should be a civilian. Half a dozen, all from the wealthy right, are vaguely available. Among them: ex-President Manuel Prado, fondly remembered for staging 1945's free elections, and Foreign Minister David Aguilar. But whoever runs, only one vote will really count. That is the vote of Manuel...
...official mills of the Communists grind out a law disbanding religious orders, Father Janos bids his fellow Jesuits go underground, or abroad, and himself becomes a modern catacomb Christian. But the secret police soon snap him up and jail him as a conspirator in a trumped-up "deviationist" plot against the state...
...shrewish mother; he narrates his story with a loose and distinctly Buechlerian style, which stumbles only occasionally. He provides a few charming touches with his description of a boy's dreams of glory on his way to school. But in doing so, he destroys the unity of his initial plot, which doesn't seem to be resolved by the boy's arrival at school...