Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot which Joseph L. Mankiewicz & Henry Myers wrote for Million Dollar Legs has something to do with the Olympic games. In order to enrich the treasury of Klopstokia, Migg Tweeny, visiting the country in the capacity of brush salesman, decides to take its amazingly able-bodied citizenry to Los Angeles. His plans to win all the events in the Olympics are impeded somewhat by a spy, in league with the cabinet members. She, Mata Machree (Lyda Roberti), makes friends with all the members of the team and causes them to squabble with each other. It looks as if Klopstokia...
...Cortes (Parliament) smiling Premier Azana passed off lightly the fact that three additional generals suspected of a plot to restore Alfonso XIII, had to be placed under arrest recently. "All these are simply isolated cases of indiscipline," said Premier Azana. He tut-tutted rumors that the Army is wavering in its loyalty to the Republic...
Bachelor's Affairs (Fox). Given the title of this picture and its motivating situation?a middle-aged gentleman fatigued by his young wife?you would doubtless be prepared to supply an outline of its plot. The outline would be accurate. The young wife has a mercenary sister. The husband has a wealthy friend to whose country estate he pays a visit. Another visitor is a young architect who likes to dance. When the wife and sister arrive, the architect and the wife carry on and are soon arrested for embracing each other on a public highway. This gives the husband...
...From Yesterday (Paramount). Like Bachelor's Affairs, this picture has a familiar plot but it has no spontaneity. It is a compendium of old stories about the War and Enoch Arden. Clive Brook and Claudette Colbert act it as though they were in a trance and if you enter the theatre in the middle of the picture you half expect them to wake up suddenly and discover that they have just been dreaming. Nothing of the sort occurs. Clive Brook is a British officer. Presently he is reported dead. Miss Colbert is his wife. She bears...
...confused with Washington Merry-Go-Round, which Columbia will presently release, although it contains a shot of a carrousel against the background of the Capitol. It is an adaptation by John Meehan and Samuel Blythe of Author Henri Bernstein's play The Claw. To give the plot pertinence in a presidential year, the scene is Washington instead of Paris, but Lionel Barrymore's role is the one he had in the play. He is Jefferson Keane, an eloquent and stubborn lawyer who gets himself into the Senate by bucking machine politics in Kansas...