Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thereafter became a pastor in the ancient town of Ravensburg. Thielicke's anti-Nazi sermons earned him a stern prohibition against speaking in public. He wrote two books and smuggled them out to Switzerland, where they were published anonymously. Karl Goerdeler, a leader of the abortive July 20 plot against Hitler, engaged him to write part of the planned revolutionary government's declaration on relations with the church. With great good luck, Thielicke avoided either a rifle .bullet or a prison cell. After the Nazi collapse, Thielicke started his career over again, as a professor of theology...
...provincial Belgian town. Around him hovers a cluster of relatives who live for nothing more than the huge fortune they hope to slice. Only one person cares nothing for his money-an illegitimate daughter whom he has acknowledged, taken into his home and educated. Anything but original as a plot-but Author Françoise Mallet-Joris, still only 27, has already proved (The Red Room, TIME, July 16, 1956) that she can reach elbow-deep into suppressed human feelings and dredge up more than enough to fill out her simple framework. She writes about her heavy provincial countrymen with...
Fire Under Her Skin, a French import no doubt better suited for domestic consumption, is one of the most egregiously bad films to be shown in Cambridge in recent years. The plot is muddled, disjointed, turgid, improbable; the entire production, heavy, unamusing, and completely pointless. It is, in all, a careless potpourri of violence and cheap melodrama interspersed with frequent sex scenes as raw and explicit as the censor will allow...
...farcial plot centers around a house in London during plague-time, transformed in its owner's absence to a headquarters for "casting figures, telling fortunes, news, selling of flies, and bawdry." The servant Face (James Stinson) and the Alchemist, Doctor Subtle, (Roger Moldovan) conspire with Doll-Common (Phyllis Ferguson) to dupe avaricious visitors who seek the gift of the philosopher's stone...
...After Bogart shoots his buddy, he sits by the fire and wonders if he has a conscience, and the camera pans down and the flames fill the whole screen. There is a goodly quantity of classic cowboy-and-Indian manuevers and physical violence but never does it seem like plot filler. Also greatly contributing is Max Steiner's fine, taut, musical score...