Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once in a great while a picture is photographed with breath-taking originality. Subordinating plot and characterization it unrolls before an untiring audience, which never coases to admire the ingenious technique, artistic angles, and gradations in color of black and white film. Such a picture is "The Ski Chase," featuring the excellent ski-ability of Hannes Schnoider. Laid in the spacious snow-doopened mountains of the Austrian Tyrol, this German production given an unusual and varied conception of the winter sport. We don't know a terrible lot about skiing, but the feats and perfection of the fifty or more...
...shadow of a plot helps to keep up the interest. The great Hannes and his new protege are made the "foos" in a hunt on skis. Distinguished by caps, the two set out on the trail. Soon a made chase ensues, and it is this that fills the body of the picture. Much comedy is afforded by a dwarf and giant pair, whose antics on skis are similar to those in last year's "Slalom...
...sweeping; the Country Club set should feel thoroughly chagrined. But then the affair wanders back into comedy pure and romantic in fact these often charming and often rather bewildering oscillations between comedy and comment set the tone of "Life's a Villain." In the long run it's the plot that counts. The author in making the play probably began with the simple incident of a poor girl falling off a dock at the lakeside home of a wealthy banker, and let himself be carried from there. In the course of his journey, he managed to produce an entertaining...
...plot, sadly enough, as before said, takes life seriously. It is a portrayal of Franz Shubert's hopeless passion for a beautiful young daughter of an Austrian jeweler. Shubert, a shy and awkward lover, finds a vent for his love in his songs to the fair Mitzi, but their new-found romance is nipped in the bud by a hapless misunderstanding. Mitzi then showers all of her warm affection upon a gay young blade, one Baron Schober, and Shubert, unable to finish his symphony for which she was the inspiration, pines away in heroic devotion. Comic honors go without...
...correctly dated, and bearing testimony to the speed which in the field of entertainment it describes. The picture is an abundant offering to those who spend their time and enthusiasm oscillating between the moviehouse and the radio. For besides the many personages dragged more or less directly into the plot, there are such purely gratuitous features as Benny Goodman and his orchestra, and Stokowski, the frenzied genius who seems to tell his musicians exactly what he wants with his violently contorted hands...