Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After solving most of Britain's best-known murders he retired at 64, five years ago (TIME, July 8, 1929). All these gentlemen were used to unraveling a shrewd, intelligent, well-constructed plot. Last week they suddenly found themselves flung into the middle of a nightmare of murders, suicides, plots and recriminations that any of them would blush to submit to the editor of a detective story magazine. Assembled at Dijon, they went down to the railroad track where the crushed body of Judge Albert Prince was found, puffed their pipes and pondered while Paris-Soir waited for their...
...elevating his voice, now twitching a finger or two. His is the center role, and he builds it up with a sort of vacillating adroitness--ever spurred on by vain ambition and pride, ever retarded by conceit and a weakness for cards--until the very shabbiness of the plot finally at the end wears through its dexterously constructed exterior, and the whole falls off into a gently exhilarating decline, both pleasing and agreeable...
...with common sense and an instinct for decency. Like a well-manipulated puppet, she passively fits in with Mr. William's style, doing just the right thing at just the right time with an unremitting, process regularity that is perfectly in tune. She is the propelling force behind the plot; it is she who turns the action to its elevation of minded suspense and pessimistic hope; but this is all lost again in the triteness of the closing scenes. The supporting cast is, moreover, excellent...
...German-Austrian-Russian border, when all of Europe was aflame. What happens to a beautiful Russian girl who sacrifices everything to serve her country in the only way she knew how and the cross-roads she comes to when love crosses her path forms the plot of the picture. The cast includes Fay Wray, Nils Asther, Edward, Arnold, Noah Beery, John Miljan, Vince Barnett and Rollo Lloyd...
...been said that casting Richard Barthelmess as the Indian chief justifies the name of the Indian chief justifies the name of this movie without considering the plot. The film, although founded upon a real issue in the problems of the administration of the Indian Reservations, is worked into the usual melodramatic show with whizzing motorcycles, howling savages, and pistol shots fired at close range...