Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is a considerable triumph, for the script gives them precious little to work with. The plot line is but minimally suspenseful and the dialogue generally banal. Director Millar has a nice feel for his handsome Oregon locations but none at all for staging action. His tendency is to back away from it and to minimize it so that even a climactic ride down a white-water river on a raft load ed with nitroglycerin turns out to be dull...
Morphos directs The Mousetrap so as to wring the maximum possible number of laughs from a fairly silly script. In the process, she necessarily subordinates the unwinding of the plot to the peculiarities of the characters who inhabit Agatha Christie's strangely isolated world...
...miners so mercilessly that he earned the nickname "Butcher." His loyalties, however, seemed more a matter of timing than of principle. When a leftist Popular Front government of Communists, socialists and anarchists swept the elections of 1936, bringing waves of street fighting, strikes and assassinations, Franco finally joined a plot by military men, fascists, monarchists and rightists of all persuasions to overthrow the Republican government. On July 17, 1936, the daring young general gained world headlines by launching a successful air and sea invasion of the Spanish mainland. Within 24 hours, Hitler and Mussolini were sending men and supplies...
Sweet Movie has no pretenses at plot, although it does make an attempt to chart the smarmy adventures of a certain Miss World 1984 (played by a lovely Canadian actress called Carole Laure). Future chroniclers of the humiliations inflicted on women in the cinema will find prime source material in Sweet Movie. En route to her exalted madness, Miss World is showered with golden urine from her new husband's gilded member; raped by a muscleman; packed into a valise and shipped to Paris, where she is raped again, this time by one El Macho, and sent out with...
Unalloyed success is hardly the stuff of gripping adventure, and Drabble wisely does not pretend otherwise. For plot, The Realms of Gold offers little more than the comical attempts of Frances and her professor-lover to reunite after an ill-conceived breakup. The tragedies in the book happen to others. A reclusive old relative of Frances' starves to death in a Midlands cottage; a nephew decides to leave the world he cannot take-and kills his infant daughter as well. Frances does not share this fatal pessimism. But she earnestly wants to know why she has been spared...