Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although it has the usual corps of continental villains, replete with monocles, saber scars, and slouch hats, "I Am a Thief," the mystery melodrama at the Fenway, is fairly successful. The plot, which involves a clever jewelry theft, may be old, but it works, to the complete mystification of the audience. Mary Aster, as the heroine torn between two loyalties, manages to look dyspeptically emotional, and Ricardo Cortez, the suave and charming cad, smiles toothily but shrewdly at his rather capable supporting cast. The photography is frequently excellent, and portrays the swift passage of the Istanbul Express across Europe with...
...same thing happened in the case of my uncle the Grand Duke Sergei.? The police very quickly discovered there was no local plot and only the assassin was executed. There was no imprisonment of others. The law courts of Russia in those days were extremely just and there was very little corruption...
...Jenny, soft and sweet, an expert at shoplifting marries stiff-necked Berkely Howard, a rum-runner. The idyll of their love is broken off when revenue officers shoot Berkely. Dottie is the viciously respectable member of the family. She marries a Cannel mill-worker, over steps herself in a plot to regain favor with the paternal grandmother who had disowned her father. The scene in which the cumulative effect of her underhandedness comes back on her disastrously is one-of the fine things in the book. Joel is condemned to live with Grandmother Harris. She burns his Shakespeare, she heats...
...plot of the film, produced at the Paramount Studios in Paris, deals with the poisoning of a prominent actress, the suspicion cast an her young lover, the proof of his innocence, and the apprehension of the real criminal...
...play is good entertainment and the last-moving plot engages one's interest throughout. The mixture of comedy and drama is good and the only uninteresting moments are when the characters seem were concerned with propagating ideas on current politics than in the plot of the play...