Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chanin they were $2.75 and the list of enthusiasts had grown to include Leopold Stokowski, Lawrence Tibbett, George Gershwin, Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Van Doren. "One of the most exciting shows in town," critics were saying. But the songs and dances make it so. Kykunkor's plot is slender. It tells of an African villager who chooses a bride, succumbs to the evil magic of another less comely party ("the witch woman"), lies unconscious until a witch doctor restores him. Three African drummers slap out the only accompaniment, sometimes weirdly soft, sometimes fiercely loud. Abdul Assen, the witch...
...Frankenstein's Boris Karloff have been thrown together that two monsters are better than one does not work out in this instance. Displaying a remarkable lack of originality in terrorizing devices and effects, the picture is hardly one to make children scream and women faint. Even more important, the plot is so complicated and incoherent that all sense of sustained terrifying suspense is virtually lost. Two such master-monsters as Lugosi and Karloff deserve a better vehicle than "The Black Cat" when they meet to match wits...
...background of student music, the two horror merchants settle many long-standing scores concerning wars and wives. Panels slide, black cats stalk, mysterious servants silently do their masters' bidding, and strong wills vie with each other. The loosely connected story fails to give even a logical order to the plot, and the result is an unconvincing succession of almost unrelated incidents designed to strike terror to the hearts of men. Even the "black cat" has nothing to do with the general action, but is an extraneous importation from Edgar Allan Poe, used only to give the piece a title...
Commendably lacking in plot, Frank Buck's Wild Cargo" does a good job in transmitting to the screen the series of adventures involved in rounding up the big game catch of a jungle expedition. Despite the fact that the spontaneous reality of some of the scenes may be questioned, this film maintains a sustained interest until the end for the person who is admittedly a wild animal fan. Although the technical realist may be unconvinced by the well-photographed hand-to-hand encounters of Frank Buck with a giant python and king cobra in turn, such scenes may prove quite...
...neighboring plot the younger CRIMSON nine was practicing: our cubs as we affectionately call them. They were getting along in splendid fashion with a large crowd watching them whom suddenly a little urchin standing near third base called out: "Hey give us back our ball and bat. We wanna play by ourselves." Our men tested out some reserve who said his name was Morison but they were not satisfied and kept asking for their bat. This was finally returned to them and then the whole crowd suddenly disappeared...