Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...staff of the foreign power in London, and McMahon offered to describe in detail the room in which they met. Upshot was an offer to McMahon, so he said, of $750 to shoot King Edward. Snapped horrified Attorney General Sir Donald Bradley Somervell: "I suggest the story of this plot is the product of your imagination...
Most of us like the balm of a little sentiment scattered sweetly here and there throughout the length of a serious movie, a kind of salve to smooth the rough edges of the plot; but literally to take a bath in the ointment is neither pleasant nor logical. And such was "To Mary With Love." It was a bathtub of sentiment, and it was neither pleasant nor logical...
...room. Less carefully tested but just as broad is the Yacht Club Boys' parody of a vaudeville tumbling act and their agreeable ditty, The Income Tax. There is some sketchy hoofing, a Harburg and Arlen ballad called In Your Own Quiet Way, and a tired little plot about the girl who gets the part...
Entrusted with money to buy guns for the peasants' revolt, O'Hara lets himself be diverted from his purpose by a pretty girl (Madeleine Carroll) who persuades him to travel by train instead of plane. When this turns out to be part of a plot by War Lord Yang (Akim Tamiroff) to hold up the train, get the money for himself, a four-way struggle develops. The girl's father (Porter Hall), sent by Yang to deliver the money to his agent in Shanghai, plans instead to abscond with it. A Shanghai barfly sniffs out the plan...
...plot, so intricate that a good deal of the interest lies in following Author Mclntyre's ingenious unwinding of the threads, moves at the pace of popcorn popping over a hot fire. When Pete hid in a secluded rooming house, he found another fugitive there. This pickpocket, when caught with a roll of stolen bills, dropped it in Pete's lap. When he returned for it, after the police released him, Pete poked him in the nose, kept the money. He thereby added another enemy to the horde interested in seeing him captured. When Pete found favor...