Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where they must choose between two doors, one concealing a ferocious tiger, the other a homely damsel whom the unfortunate victim must marry. Actually, the procedure is more like something out of "Let's Make a Deal" than a medieval court of justice. In any case, the plot centers around the dilemma of Princess Barbara (Colleen McMahon), who falls in love with a soldier and must decide whether to give him to the beast or to another woman. The Snake supplies her with the information with which she can save or kill her lover. In one of the sultrier moments...
...Chicago, he was known as a demon chess player who quit the game for a greater love: philosophy. "But somewhere, no matter how serious I was," he recalls, "there was always a little boy kicking around inside. Then I sold my first story to Esquire. It wrapped a plot around some shaggy dog stories. Red Skelton mentioned the piece on the air, and the boy and philosopher were off and running...
Butley was reviewed in yesterday's Crimson. An ambitious production that carries through a very high proportion of a very funny play. Wry humor about a professor whose life is falling apart with--considering the unhappy surface of the plot--and amazing number of laughs...
...movie is based on a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, who really knew how to heap on the plot. Burroughs may not have been much of a stylist, but any writer who can bring submarines and Brontosauri together deserves respect. Just for the record, Bowen Tyler (McClure) and Lisa Clayton (Penhaligon) are passengers on a ship that is torpedoed by Captain von Schoenvorts (John McEnery). Along with a few surviving British officers, Tyler takes over the German submarine (don't ask how; luck has something to do with it), which gets lost somewhere around South America. Water and supplies...
Korngold took his plot from a popular romance by a minor Belgian writer named Georges Rodenbach. Korngold knew an unusual story when he saw it. The hero, Paul (Tenor John Alexander), lives sorrowfully in Bruges, with the memory of his dead wife Marie, her portrait and a long switch of her hair. Into his life comes Marietta, a saucy dancer who resembles Marie. In a long dream sequence, Paul woos Marietta. But when she teases him about the dead woman's hold on him, he strangles her with Marie's hair. He awakens cleansed of his obsession, free...