Word: plot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been paid the equivalent of $85 by Huong's political enemies to kill the Premier, had eventually confessed to being a Communist agent. Inevitably, in the conspiratorial atmosphere of Vietnamese politics, there were those who preferred to believe that the assassination attempt had been a dark and sinister plot hatched against Huong by foes inside the government. The Viet Cong's publicists did not offer any enlightenment, since dissension within the government is, for them, the next best thing to outright assassination...
...telephone books he keeps on hand for the purpose) and providing each with detailed dossiers. Maigret, for instance, is heavyset, patient as Job and frequently compassionate toward the murderers he catches. Then, in what he calls his "state of grace," Simenon's subconscious takes over and evolves a plot. Simenon takes only eight days to write each book, relentlessly crosses off the days on a calendar. Finished manuscripts are tossed aside for three weeks and then revisions quickly made. Hazel Bushes, which deals with the life and wives of a Parisian banker named Francois Perret-La-tour, is "very...
...that Swedish society has a class system?" "Do you belong to the labor movement?") and lots of shots of Sjöman making the film. But the political issues have little meaning or relevance for American audiences, and the efforts to correlate the craft of film making with the plot seem a haphazard and confused exercise...
Subtle Variations. The plot is a simple blueprint from which Hubert Cornfield, the director, producer and coauthor, builds an intricate superstructure. A girl (Pamela Franklin) is kidnaped at Orly Airport by a man dressed as a chauffeur (Marlon Brando). The chauffeur and his three partners (Richard Boone, Rita Moreno, Jess Hahn) hold her captive at a deserted seaside cottage while they approach her wealthy father about the ransom. The mechanics of the operation and, more important, the slowly disintegrating relationships between the kidnapers are the essence of the film...
...Face it, Enid," Dad says to Mum. "He's not normal." They are talking about their crazy 21-year-old son Martin (Hywel Bennett), whose idea of a big time is to masquerade as merely retarded. Martin spots an attractive bird named Susan (Hayley Mills) and hatches a plot that eventually gets Dad done in, Susan-ravaged, and Susan's mom cut up like so much kindling. This exercise in Petit Guignol, called Twisted Nerve, has all the suspense of a marshmallow roast, and struggles to make itself more plausible by adding some genetic gibberish about chromosomal damage...