Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot is thoroughly inane. It has to do with the joys and terrors of a debonair young man who enters unwittingly into bigamy and continues in it because he can't decide how to get out. The first of the two acts sees him oscillating between Paris and London, the one the home of his first wife, whom be thought drowned, the other the home of his second. There is a good deal of horseplay connected with an attempt to keep a man in the know from betraying the here's duplicity, and the show gains little...
Aside from these three, the film hasn't much else. It presents the old plot of the football coach who is too old, the efforts to reinstate him, the star declared ineligible just before the big game, and the eventual winning of the game...
After Paris police had confided to the press that their chief Royalist plot-suspect, Eugène Deloncle, was apparently in Rome, having "fled to the Fascist Capital," they observed him strolling across a Paris square, arrested him forthwith. A flying squad of detectives dashed from Marseille 120 miles to raid, at Cannes, the jewelry shop kept by a brother of M. Deloncle, discovered and seized three sabres. Papers seized by the police, who have been calling their suspects collectively Les Cagoulards ("The Hooded Men"), mentioned a Comité Secret d'Action Révolutionnaire or C.S.A.R. Promptly...
High Flyers (RKO Radio), a prettified thing of unfunny gags and attenuated plot, writes a wavering finis to Wheeler-Woolsey film comedy. The cinema first paired Robert Woolsey and Bert Wheeler in 1929 in Rio Rita. Since then they have been teamed in a dozen or more comedies, hitting their stride with pictures like Half Shot at Sunrise, Hold 'Em Jail, Hips, Hips, Hooray, skidding badly of late with Silly Billies, Mummy's Boys. Goggled, gaunt, aging Robert Woolsey completed High Flyers with a fever of 102, a doctor and nurse in attendance, has been ordered into retirement...
...Postman Always Rings Twice James Mallahan Cain wrote a brief, brisk best-seller in which philosophic overtones could be dimly heard above the rattling melodrama of the plot. Last week he published a second novel that is just as melodramatic as his first, a little longer, equally swift reading. It has its quota of close shaves, fights, flights and two-dimensional characters, suggests an old-fashioned pulp magazine thriller brought up to date by a writer who knows Freud as well as all tricks of suspense. Its hero (and narrator) is a world-famous singer who has lost his voice...