Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clutching a rabbit's foot. After long and laughable complications he is seen at the picture's climax entering a racketeer's headquarters armed with a monkey wrench to rescue the beautiful kidnapped daughter of a rich lawyer. There is more fun in The Gang Buster than its plot would indicate. Oakie is good and so is William Boyd as Gangster Mike Slade. Best shot: Wynne Gibson as a gangster's moll sending innocent Oakie out to telephone a rival gunman that Slade is paying...
...because of an impediment in the speech of the captain (but whom, for purposes of clearness here, we will call Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego) are cast into the Fleming furnace but Victor tries in vain to be the king of Glory. This is the plot...
...called Whalen Documents of a Red plot in the U. S. were not authenticated...
...Barker's able translation of it in 1912), it has yet some durable qualities- wit, grace, ebullience. Viennese Joseph Schildkraut plays Anatol unevenly, not always bringing him to life. Offstage waltzes by Johann Strauss gave the play authentic Alt Wien atmosphere, which, is almost all it needs. The "plot" is merely, a half-dozen amorous episodes. unconnected except by the busy hero. Best performance is that of Patricia Collinge, subtle and wistful as a lady who might have loved Anatol but never dared. Blonde Miriam Hopkins is raucously amusing as a guzzling showgirl...
...know how it is going to turn out. As long as I stick to the air I can keep up my following for twenty years or more, but a few bad movies would have a devastating effect, so why gamble? My movie was a simple story with hardly any plot, but it was advertised in such a way that everyone expected something stupendous. I acted in it just as I do in life, and as I am inclined to be not exactly sad, but rather serious, people thought that I could not be jolly. Of course I can smile...