Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father's mortal enemy, a young man who has learned to be an architect. They marry. Furious, the girl's father (Leo Carrillo) threatens to kill his son-in-law, is killed himself by his aged mother. Critics wondered whether Hamlet would not make a better gangster plot than Romeo Or Juliet. The Age For Love (United Artists-Howard Hughes). Howard Hughes let it be known that he was seeking a suitable story for Billie Dove and then devoted a full year to selecting one. The Age for Love, adapted by Ernest Pascal from his own novel, does...
...milk. To be comprehensible to humans, she may have to make herself ridiculous, become a synthetic vaudeville kind of beast with humans installed fore & aft to walk, talk and sing for her. Even so, such a cow serves excellently to point the plot of Jack & the Beanstalk, a "fairy opera for the childlike" with libretto by John Erskine (The Private Life of Helen of Troy), music by Louis Gruenberg. Opera and cow were presented in Manhattan last week as a part of the wealthy Juilliard Musical Foundation's housewarming...
Perhaps the director of the motion picture felt obliged to change several of the sequences for the purpose of adaptation. Such alterations as appear, nevertheless, fail to add to the effectiveness of the plot and often obscure the action. Things seem a bit too hurried. There is not the careful focus and delicate shading in the tempo of the action which helped John Halliday win success on the stage...
...Most disputed point in any Roosevelt chronicle : Did the President personally incite the revolution of 1903 whereby Panama seceded from Colombia and opened the way for the construction of a U. S. canal? After a re-examination of all available evidence Biographer Pringle concludes that he did not directly plot the uprising but that he was "extremely well informed" as to the conspirators' plan. The Panama Republic was cradled in Room No. 1162 of the old Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Bent on selling the French franchise to the U. S., Philippe Bunau-Varilla and William Nelson Cromwell buzzed often and loudly...
...With a plot no more preposterous than many detective stories, Man with the Painted Head contrives an atmosphere more realistic than most. The artists' colony at Storr's Point was isolated, inaccessible except through one gate which was kept locked. When middle-aged Miss Fenwick arrived to visit her niece she and the taxi-driver would have been perturbed had they seen the notorious criminal clinging to the back tire. That same night Playwright Van Buren, big frog of the colony, was stabbed to death with an ice pick. In rapid succession came two other killings, several murderous attempts...