Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Countess Bethlen is the Countess Bethlen, a law unto her smart, svelte self. She exchanges plot ideas with Statesman-playwright Benito Mussolini. When her plays are produced in Italy he goes to them, claps his hands, wires congratulations. Obviously the Countess Bethlen was earning the foreign money she spent last week by lecturing as she traveled. But amid money hysteria in Central Europe few heads were clear. To Hungarian Socialists the lecturing countess seemed a creature without shame, unpatriotic, diabolic...
...sincere and thoughtful if somewhat superficial sermon on the sanctity of marriage and the insignificance of escapade. Typical shot: Juliette Compton saying "Don't let me die!" to Clive Brook just after taking the poison. Delicious (Fox). Pictures in which Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell appear together seldom change plot. Janet Gaynor is a waif of some sort and Charles Farrell is a personable, wealthy young man. Beyond waiting for Miss Gaynor to break into song or into the peculiar prancing gait which she affects in moments of exuberance, there is never any suspense. You are aware that before...
...well known types of cinema entertainment: aeronautical spectacle (like Hell's Angels, Dirigible) and man-to-man comedy (like What Price Glory, The Big Parade). It is also a loud advertisement for the U. S. Navy. One of the shortcomings of Hell Divers is the fact that spectacle and plot are not well integrated. Parts which are pure spectacle are noisy, informative and magnificently photographed. Best shots: a covey of bombing planes wheeling one by one to dive at a target (shown three times); a plane landing on the deck of the U. S. S. Saratoga as seen...
...heroine was branded with a red hot iron, on the back. As a novelty in this version, Irving Pichel applies the iron to Tallulah Bankhead's front,* murmuring vicious cliches as he does so. A court room scene comes later. The picture is well mounted but the plot is not nearly so diverting as Miss Bankhead's wrestling match with her material. Sample speech, from Pichel, when he is showing Bankhead a trophy case of dolls: "Once they were lovely women who were kind...
Near Canterbury in England there is a title brush grown field. The Vagabond has been led to believe that it is from this small plot of ground that the English derive their term "tripper" for the more conventionally known traveller," or more simply "American." In that field buried beneath grass that has not felt the mower's scythe for years and overgrown with moss which foxes scuffle in wild fear there lies a little marble slab. As men walk over this buried stone they trip. If, after recovering balance, the traveller stoops to examine, he will find that in this...