Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buildings are now swimming in deep grayish mud, but the plot will eventually be landscaped...
...realism comes chiefly from the absence of the typical villain-hero relationship that marks the average movie plot. Henry Fonda has the leading part but he only rebels against the mob; he cannot stop the lynching. Fonda takes the position of a muse that realizes, even raises his voice against the injustice, yet when the end comes, he has really been only a bystander. And the villains too are not singly responsible but are rather cowards whose weaknesses combined make a criminal potent enough to kill three...
...second feature, "Somewhere in the Night," has a clever enough plot but falls into the pitfall of melodrama that its running mate escapes...
Laszlo Rajk, former Hungarian Foreign Minister, on trial for plotting to overthrow Hungary's government, was close to the end of the road. The trial itself, charged Marshal Tito last week, was part of a plot to overthrow the Yugoslav government. In a firm diplomatic note, Tito called the trial a "juridical burlesque...
...some contrived symbolism to point up the struggle between a mother and wife for a young man's affections. The acting of the mother is exceptionally good but once again the author descends to the maudlin to close his story and good acting is not enough to redeem the plot...