Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After threatening suicide from a locked hotel room which she had fortified with a large supply of sleeping pills and a bottle of whisky, Whodunit Authoress Craig (Home Sweet Homicide) Rice, 41, had an explanation for the cops: it was all just a plot twist to win back her estranged fifth husband, Henry W. De Mott Jr., 29, whom she was suing for divorce. "It was a foolish thing to do," she admitted, "but sounded like a good idea at the time...
This time, the plot was fully hatched; except for the sharp-eared intelligence service of Minister of Government and Justice Alfredo Mollinedo, it might have overthrown elegant, bearded Acting President Mamerto Urriolagoitia before he knew what had hit him. Hearing rumblings of the plot, Mollinedo moved fast. In La Paz, he arrested most of M.N.R.'s underground general staff; he also captured rifles, submachine guns, ammunition, grenades and documents listing the rebel "government" that was to be headed by exiled M.N.R. Chieftain Víctor Paz Estenssoro...
Buried in the stuffing is a situation dear to the hearts of farce writers: the plight of a manly newly wed (Gary Grant) who is prevented by twists of the plot from getting to bed with his bride (Ann Sheridan). Here the situation is rigged on a fresh but frail device that crumbles under ponderous handling. To join his WAG Lieut. Sheridan, whose outfit is leaving Germany, Frenchman Grant must be deployed as an "alien spouse" through the U.S. Army's channels for delivering European brides to their G.I. husbands...
...spirited pacing and exaggeration Director Montgomery has made the most of his synthetic plot-which is still not quite enough. There are hints that the picture was intended as a burlesque of a familiar type of grade B melodrama. But with its air of sly sophistication it could also be taken as a subtler parody of standardized featherbrain farce. Every now & then, in unexpected bits of dialogue and situation, the film shows a fresh comic touch, but most of its effort is frittered away in indecision...
Castle officials trembled before the wrath of their superiors, who also trembled before the blows of the press and the demands of the public, all intent on discovering the plot behind Wheeler. When Scotland Yard's best inspector reported that Wheeler was little more than a curious small boy, the inspector was told to look again. Wheeler himself suffered untold indignities: examinations, denunciations, investigations, and once even a bath...