Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot of the picture deals with the adventures of an old rake in love with a young bud. Conway Tearle, as Max, the rake, is rightly cast and capable. His fortunes are complicated by the presence of Winifred (Katharine Alexander), who has for some time been his mistress and Laura (Alice Brady), who imagines herself to have been his mistress once. These two women scorned, naturally feel internally agitated at being cut out by a more twig, the niece of one, the daughter of the other. Alice Brady, in her role of a flighty and almost mindless but well-meaning...
...misunderstanding during most of the third act two detectives rehash the whole business and decide that Derwent's alibi is too perfect; ergo, he is the guilty man. After a great deal of twiddle-twaddle about the part played in the crime by time Derwent clears himself, and, the plot being almost tragically clear to the spectators by now, the curtain is rung down...
...preceding brief outline tells very little of Hillel Bernstein's delightful novel; in fact, it merely relates a few of the incidents leading up to Henry Jones' real adventures. And it would be superfluous to tell much more of the plot, for it seems to me that the essential value in L'Affaire Jones is derived from the amusing twists in fortune which Mr. Bernstein has devised for his puppets...
...Candlelight," the other picture, features Elissa Landi, and Paul Lukas in a high-society comedy scramble. Elissa is not at her best, but she is bearable. The plot is intricate, one you can puzzle out for yourselves; it involves maids and butlers taking the place of their mistresses and masters, while the masters and mistresses live in sin, and while the butlers and maids think each other other than they seem; it's a good picture...
...Fisher does succeed, in "Passions Spin the Plot," in keeping his straight-forward method at an unusually high level. Most of the irrelevancies are later reclaimed and justified; a clear continuity of impression has been preserved. Vridar Hunter, an Idaho farm boy, first of his line to enter the doors of a college, emerges from the second volume as a Wasatch alumnus; the record of his transformation is a careful, and a revealing, one. His problems are the old problems of youth; their setting has made them more intense and more bitter. Sex and ambition and disillusionment come sharply...