Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yapping at President de Valera's heels are the irreconcilables of the Irish Republican Army. They refuse to vote for deputies to the Dail: they call the 1921 treaty with Britain "the treaty of surrender." Their young men. of whom Eamon de Valera was once one. drill and plot the new day of Revolution, cursing de Valera for his caution. Last week he told them that with the abolition of the oath "a new situation has been created,'' opening the Oireachtas "to all sections of the population, without their having to forswear any opinions they might hold...
...over to police the No. 1 bandit of the city. This is the third successive Warner Brothers picture to be distinguished by lavatory scenes (the other two were Baby Face and Central Airport. A happy thought was the teaming of tough, noisy Alice White with tough, noisy Cagney. Without plot restrictions, it is doubtful who would have won the bout...
There are many opportunities for over-sentimentality but fortunately director Ralph Murphy has charted the course of his feamy schooner around these perils. The plot is somewhat standard: Papa Hoffman, Americanized German, whose name has for years been synonymous with the best of beer, sends his sons to France to fight the Fatherland. During their absence the Volsteadian debacle closes his lawful business and establishes the lucrative blind pig and speakeasy. Conflict between his remaining son, who now manufactures near beer, "the nearest we will ever got to beer," and Nails, his erst-while truck driver, and present racket king...
...picture would have been much better if it had been more explicit about how its most interesting personage reaches this sad predicament. A plot which is more of an insinuation than a narrative implies that the soul of Bavian's dead mistress, a lady sadist executed for strangling three of her lovers, comes back to inhabit temporarily the body of a pure young heiress (Carole Lombard) who consults Bavian to get news of her dead twin brother. The heiress faints during a seance; when she wakes up, her eyes have a fiendish glitter. She entices Bavian aboard her yacht...
...applause which closed the initial performance of "Barberina", the first German film to be presented at Harvard. This was immediately due to technical defects in the sound reproduction, unnecessary flaws which marred a most charming cinema. Of course, the film was badly chosen; it should have had a simple plot about a man and a woman and love which came at last, after all gangsters had been removed by the heroic physical efforts of the man. When critics read a Freudian significance into the modern immediacy of "Maedchen in Uniform"--where such interpretation has about as much place...