Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certain Lieut.-Colonel Atilio Cataneo presently confessed himself leader of the plot, but President Justo could not resist the temptation to blame everything on his political rivals, the Radical Personalista Party...
This is the main plot line of Central Park, but the picture is full of extraordinary bypaths. A lunatic appears in the zoo and tries to get even with one of the keepers for not feeding the animals enough meat. An aged policeman (Guy Kibbee) loses his badge for failing to apprehend the lunatic but not until a lion (Jackie, of the Selig Zoo, Los Angeles) has escaped from his cage and crawled into a taxicab from which he presently emerges to enter the Casino just after its guests have survived the shock of the holdup. All this assorted violence...
...mistreat Lora Nash. Polikai strangles the thief, throws the champion (Wladek Zbyszko, who also appears briefly in Uptown New York}, goes to jail. Actor Emil Jannings, of whom Wallace Beery is coming to be the U. S. equivalent, appeared in a picture called Variety which had a plot noticeably similar to that of Flesh. However, when Edmund Goulcling (who directed Grand Hotel) wrote Flesh, and when John Ford directed it. they would have done well to remember more of Variety than the outline of the story. Flesh moves in a lugubrious way, too slowly to be exciting, and perspiring...
...author of the plot has taken the idea of "Thirteen Women," which crime club addicts remember as the grisly melodrama of Frauenzimmer from a sorority who were all condemned to die mysteriously one after the other. This ingenious device is applied to five gentlemen traveling in Morocco, who impolitely resist the demands of an old beggar for baksheesh, and are therefore cursed with a fate which shall overtake them in order before the next phase of the moon. But the logical French mind can allow no such supernatural fakirs to succeed. One man dies, a newspaper reports the death...
...show the weakness of circumstantial evidence by the cliche of putting the prosecutor in the boots of the prosecuted. Obviously such a theme will have as wide an appeal as a well-written detective story. Like some of the mediocre tales of crime, "Circumstantial Evidence" suffers from a plot that temerity would brand as clap-trap, but discrimination would be inclined to call well cemented. Although damaging evidence may be inextricable from the truth, a plot that is so tortuously constructed is likely to cause the spectator's credulity to totter. There are too many improbable parallels...