Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policy but one, force." Within 24 hours Germany had put enough pressure on the all but defenseless Scandinavian countries to transform their Foreign Ministers at Geneva into ardent lobbyists against any Council action which might impute even blame to Germany. Meanwhile Swiss defectives claimed to have unmasked a plot to assassinate the Foreign Ministers of France, Czechoslovakia and Rumania who are known to have busied themselves in recent weeks over the draft text of a virtual military alliance with Russia to keep Germany in check. Since assassination was the fate of French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou, who first pressed...
...Fire has no theory to grind, parades its swift narrative of the war years in a series of graphic scenes. It opens in the dingy bridal suite of a Philadelphia hotel in February 1861, with Lincoln, the President-elect, listening to Detective Pinkerton's warnings of the plot to assassinate him as he passes through Baltimore next day. The outlines of Author Pratt's story are familiar to every schoolboy, but he vitalizes it with many a contemporary detail. While the war was still only imminent, many a Northern businessman tried to collect his Southern debts...
...Charlie Chan in Paris," with Warner Oland and a mediocre supporting cast, pulls itself up by the bootstraps from the sludge of the usual detective thriller by a feeble tug. Replete with the Paramount Paris sower set, the Paramount Paris hotels, policemen and nightclubs, the plot alone has the virtue of making this an entertaining picture, Typical shots--a lame masked man peeking over window ledges. A gloved hand poking the muzzle of a gun through a crack in a door, a spurt of flame, a clutched hand, female screams . . . certainly not the equal of the immortal "Thin...
...Lawrence's predicament grows on the audience as the audience sees it growing on Lawrence. When emissaries from the Foreign Office demand the note which the mysterious abductors have forbidden Lawrence to give up, it gradually becomes established that his daughter has become a trump card in a plot to assassinate a diplomat whose death may mean a war. Following the clue he discovers in the note, Lawrence goes to Wapping, tiptoes into a deserted church, finds himself trapped by a fat smiling monster (Lorre) who orders the little girl brought in. The company sit down to listen...
...good one. This musical film also contains Crooner Bing Crosby, who with bland face and bland voice has recently impersonated such characters as a sailor, a Princeton student, a crooner. Together, Fields and Crosby add certain novel elements to Mississippi's "you-all," hoop skirt & julep plot as taken from a Booth Tarkington play...