Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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charged a plot between Prosecutor Thomas and the circulation manager of the opposition Vindicator, who had been fired by Scripps-Howard and allegedly vowed...
...John's son or not. But I wouldn't go through those court hearings again if I was positive." His public, doubting him shrewd enough to have concocted his case, waited to see what manner of rascal the District Attorney would show up as author of a plot...
From his chair in the wings this week Mr. Gatti watched Baritone Lawrence Tibbett impersonate Simone Boccanegra, a 14th Century doge whose life was thoroughly cluttered with political intrigues, kidnappings, poisonings. The audience, Mr. Gatti knew, would make little effort to follow the complicated plot. The few powerful, cumulative moments in the music would not make up for the lack of familiar, fetching tunes. But Simone Boccanegra suited Mr. Gatti for the season's opening opera. His hero Verdi wrote it. It is spectacular. The first act might be slow but at least the scene in the big council...
...movie has all the conventional dramatic machinery of its type, the amateur detective, the blameless hero and heroine upon whom suspicion falls, a psychopathic murderer, and to say more would give the plot away. Sherlock Holmes probably stirs uneasily in his grave when productions of this kind are made, but he need not be too disturbed, for the play makes no pretense of being more than...
Joan Blondell is advertised as "the girl who knows all the answers," so she is probably informed on the question of just how flat her work can fall. "Big City Blucs" demonstrates the answer plainly. It resorts to the old device, a frame plot: to point the theme, which is the glamour of a metropolis, the cinema is "framed" with opening and closing scenes of provincial simplicity. The work of Miss Blondell and of Mr. Eric Linden is mediocre, and the theme is worked up cheaply and unimaginatively...