Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shopworn," selected primarily for the limited talent of Barbara Stanwyck has the dubious honor of being the most badly photographed combination of miscast players, stupid lines and rehashed settings that this reviewer has seen in many a day. The plot doubtless plagiarized from Horatio Alger tells how persistence can overcome maternal jealousy and bring the loving couple together. Honors go to Clara Blandick and to Zazu Pitts for rather neat handling of character parts; but as for Regis Toomey in his first lead, and Barbara Stanwyck in what certainly should be her last,-all that can be said is that...
Roadhouse Murder (RKO) has at least a novel plot. The hero is an unsuccessful newspaper reporter. Accidentally present at the scene of a murder, he sees a chance to make himself comparatively rich and famous by: 1) planting incriminating evidence against himself 2) getting arrested for the crime, 3) writing his own account of the trial for his newspaper 4) introducing, at the last minute evidence that will exonerate him and catch the real culprits off their guard. His plan fails in the last detail. The evidence- a purse containing the name of the murderer's companion-is stolen...
...some youngsters familiar to Germans in the famed drawings of Cartoonist Wilhelm Busch, the "Kids," their antics and tricks on the ever gullible Captain and Inspector, amused millions of U. S. children, still retain immense popularity. Dibble's first "comic," indistinguishable from the original, unfolded an elaborate plot involving a weight-reducing machine, whereby the Kids got pies by the dozen, ice cream by the gallon, and put their parents into straitjackets...
...which she conducted an intrigue was positively exciting. Robert Breckinridge '34 was a highly amusing Hippolyte. Vernon Hodges '34 as Mr. Morris was sufficiently dapper and sophisticated. Some of the parts were somewhat overdone, rough spots in the acting were perhaps too often apparent. On the whole, however, the plot was clever and amusing, the presentation creditably done...
...movie is adapted from a story by Marcel Allard. The plot concerns itself with the vicissitudes of a young peasant girl, who is betrothed to a doctor, but runs away with her music teacher, and is married to him. The poverty of her husband, who is an opera singer, irks her and in despair over his jealousy she returns to the jilted doctor. Life with him is equally troublesome, and after another reversal of affections she again leaves him for the singer...