Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What shall we use for a plot?" said Mama Kerr...
...present production totters rather than hovers, but the point remains; it is very funny stuff. Surprisingly enough, the funny stuff is concocted with the most hackneyed characters imaginable: a personable young man of high principles, a fresh-faced ingenue, a jaded roue, and a belligerent Irish cop. The plot is too complicated to discuss, and wouldn't be worth it anyway; the humor derives from epigram and situation...
...haul was the biggest in months-31 rebels (who were charged with plotting against a foreign state), $30,000 worth of mortars, antitank guns, rifles and medical supplies headed for Fidel Castro's revolutionary forces. Next day, in luxurious homes along Biscayne Boulevard, in such southwestern Miami hangouts as the neonbright Blue Derby Restaurant and the Tropicana dance hall, Cuban faces were as long as a rum sour. And Cubans were not the only residents of Miami with a particular interest in the night's events. The city is a hive of revolutionists; hardly a day goes...
Director Sam Wood has done a dramatically effective job of converting Ernest Hemingway's tight drama of guerilla warfare into a movie, but he has run into difficulty in neglecting the major ideas of the book. The book would make no sense without the love plot; it holds the story together and provides real element of tragedy. Yet the movie glosses the subtleties of the love sequence, leaving the viewer with the impression that he has seen some good war scenes, and some good love scenes, with very little to relate them to each other...
Plans are under way to mount it off-Broadway during the coming season; and the motivation is justified, for this is an important play. It is "difficult" and unorthodox, and demands unflagging concentration. There is no plot in the usual sense of the word; and the element of time is employed in a fluid and daring...