Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disjointed and disconnected, the plot results in a welter of many unequal scenes. The sentencing of the miner, Hagon Derk, to death for a murder which he has not committed, has power and introduces the play well; but the following scenes, lack corresponding conviction--the "wild party" is only amusing, the accident to the child has some pathos, the wedding of the rich girl and the condemned criminal in his "death-cell" is made impressive by the guitar playing of another prisoner and by the hammering on the gallows outside. The mere listing of the scenes shows how many stage...
...does any good acting save the day; Charles Bickford convinces most, but the others are unable to rise above the disconnectedness of the plot. DeMille's directing produces a single strong feature--the final scene wherein the woman and her two lovers are trapped by a mine cave-in, thousands of feet below ground. Conrad Nagel, presented at last with an opportunity to act, responds, and the realism of the solution of the triangle slightly atones for the production as a whole...
Unabashed, Mexican authorities announced that the whole thing was a plot of the Vasconcelistas, partisans of defeated Presidential candidate Jose Vasconcelos. Safe in Los Angeles, Senor Vasconcelos commented...
...discernible that the fence is a symbol for an orthodox snugness within which the conventional wife tries to inclose her imaginative, vaulting husband. But Playwright Burnet's dramatic sense is by no means as lucid as his psychology, and his taste is woeful. The theme is obscured in a plot stuffed with nonessentials. Otto Kruger acts the poet valiantly despite dialog which makes him speak like a moonstruck sixth-former...
...honest man of his young brother. Thus, at least, the producers of Street of Chance have worked out his character in a picture shrewdly designed to profit by still active popular interest in the murder. Rothstein, played by William Powell, is not named directly, but in general the plot follows the outlines of the real case faithfully-Lindy's restaurant on Broadway is reproduced as "Larry's," and no trouble is taken to keep the Holland House Hotel from looking like the Park Central. It is an exciting and fairly credible melodrama distinguished by Powell's fine...