Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even in the wake of The Exorcist, it is too much to ask an audience to take seriously a plot about a young witch-boy of the Ozarks who turns human to marry his sweetheart but is turned back into a witch by the jealous schemes of the witch-girls he has left behind. The only magic in the play consists of the near-miracle that the cast is good enough to keep the audience's attention...
...angles through prison bars. Which isn't giving the ending away, because there's always an inevitability about where the movie is going. This would be okay if things weren't so clumsy sometimes. Part of this lies in the occasional one-dimensionality of the unfolding of the plot. It's not that there aren't cross-current themes: the glimmerings of sympathetic consciousness awakened in the older sailors is one, and it's brilliantly performed in each isolated scene. But the characters are on the road, in a new place each time, so they have little control over...
Contrary to ad campaigns and criticism, the makers ofThe Seven-Ups, The Laughing Policeman and Magnum Force do not call for law-and-order. They don't, in fact, have enough time to espouse politics or ideology of any stripe. They're not even interested in plot or drama, only in speed and thump. Their stories are alibis for sensationalistic action, and they re-enact the most heinous crimes out of love for the box office. These films are really B pictures, camouflaged with a smear of realism, padded with car chases and gadgetry to hold their audiences...
Harlem in the Evening is not a "plain story." The production is extremely complex, with little character development and less plot to hold it together. Gene Bone and Howard Fenton, both of whom worked with Hughes before his death, composed and conceived Harlem in the Evening from Hughes's poems, lyrics and drama as a cross-section of life in Harlem. In many ways the play is like Hughes's long poem about Harlem, Montage of a Dream Deferred, from which some of the script was taken. It has the same sudden shifts in pace, mixing quick jazz tempos with...
...plot thickened as the Senate Armed Services Committee last week pressed its investigation of the documents pilfered from Henry Kissinger's national security office and passed on to the Pentagon. The week's most sensational witness was Yeoman First Class Charles E. Radford, who swore that he had been ordered to spy on the White House. By his account, he had made a fine...