Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot is trite and seemingly devoid of interesting detail, but Mr. Roberts has used it to write a happy and whimsical novel, one thoroughly entertaining, and requiring no particular attention...
...plot of Devil's Lottery is really the invention of one of its characters, Lord Litchfield (Halliwell Hobbs) who, when his horse King Midas wins the Derby, invites all the people who have held winning lottery tickets to a party at his house. Evelyn Beresford (Elissa Landi) turns up, accompanied by a scapegrace Army officer whose wife is absent and in poverty. The officer (Paul Cavanagh) plays cards with a clownish prizefighter (Victor McLaglen) and wins. The prizefighter tries to steal from his mother (Beryl Mercer) to pay the money and his mother dies of fear. The prizefighter then kills...
...accent which Director Ernst Lubitsch* gives to scenes like this and the polish with which Young, Chevalier and Charles Ruggles act them, that make them much funnier than they have often been before. The plot of One Hour With You is not startlingly new. Director Lubitsch himself used it before in a silent cinema called The Marriage Circle, but this time he has given it a new informality, with tricks which other Hollywood directors are bound to imitate. Chevalier addresses the audience from time to time and tells them, to make sure that they understand the story, that...
Here a U. S. cinema plot might have called for a hasty showdown, in which Jef would either forgive his Marceline or, pardonably, shoot her. Director Jean Choux, who wrote the story, avoided such cliches. As the candid husband. Rene Lefebvre has built up a brilliant characterization in comic pathos. He has cheerfully ground coffee at his wife's command, comforted her. unwittingly, when one of her lovers departed for Brazil. He is so helpless, so friendly that Clo-Clo tries to spare his feelings by not telling the bad news. Marceline returns and in the end, so skillfully...
Shopworn (Columbia) escapes the danger, in which its plot places it, of being too accurately titled. Reserve in the directing and natural, finished acting, commend it to above-the-average cinemaddicts. Pop Lane and his daughter Kitty (Barbara Stanwyck) live in a construction camp. As pop is dying from injuries received in a dynamite blast, he warns his daughter that life is '"tough," tells her always to "take it on the chin." Kitty spends the remainder of the picture having a good time doing so. She moves from construction camp to college campus, waits on table...