Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clearly under the delusion that he was proposing an explosively novel theory for behavior. This odd combination of circumstances has a peculiar effect. It gives the picture a disarming sincerity; because Fay Wray in a serious emotional role develops a skillful and moving performance, the trite machinations of the plot acquire an incongruous validity. The story: a young architect (Gene Raymond) and his wife are pressed for funds. She goes into a law office, swiftly becomes a celebrated attorney. Her husband, slighted by her friends, humiliated by her success, takes to drink, dancing girls, the profession of crooning. When...
...Dashiell Hammett had written Grand Hotel, the result might have been something like Sleepers East. Author Nebel cannot command Hammett's sulphurous and suspense-laden style, but he has fitted together a first-rate melodrama, whose plot is more cunningly joined than Grand Hotel's, its suspense and climax better managed. Sleepers East is headed for a brisk trip, with Hollywood one of its way-stations...
...Plympton Street to the river, a hot draft of air singed his eyelashes, and as he passed the back doors of restaurants the smell of greases caught on his coat, till the next gust blew them off again, and he hurried on. At the river he would find a plot of grass from which he might dangle his feet into the water with no one to blame him for it. Often he had sat there in the Spring and watched the sun play Lotto with the chubby red tower across the river, and later he had watched the channel lights...
...whole or in part, from No. 23 Wall St.? These were questions of policy, not of fact, which the country rather than the Senate committee would have to answer. Though they obviously cannot have it both ways, radicals and half-baked liberals talk in one breath about bankers' "plots" to run the country ruthlessly, and in the next breath they denounce capitalism because it lacks a plan -a "plot" - for running the country at all. But a bankers' "plot" to run the country-or the lack of it- is a very difficult thing to prove, even...
...River Falls she asks for the $1,000, much to Muldoon's chagrin. After the usual ups and downs in the film capital she is promised a big part, but just then her sweetheart from New Jersey appears. Goldie renounces her career, leaving her producers, Muldoon and the plot...