Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plot focuses on two days in a Southern town where "an arrogant, hard-headed . . . independent Negro" named Lucas Beauchamp (Juano Hernandez) is accused of shooting a white man in the back. While Lucas rests tranquilly in the jailhouse and most of the county stands outside trying to decide when to lynch him, a few conscience-stricken citizens (including Claude Jarman Jr. and David Brian as a lawyer) set out to prove his innocence. The path they take to clear him leads to such Tom Sawyerish hocus-pocus as grave-robbing and fishing in quicksand for a vanished corpse...
...plot is reasonably easy to follow if you bring along a bloodhound and a pocket dictionary of Arab names, which rend the desert air and are damn hard to keep track...
...Lake Success, Yugoslav Deputy Foreign Minister Ales Bebler blandly told reporters that his government knew all about the plot. Said he: "The situation is well in hand...
...satire is itself twofold, kidding Texas by way of a national picture magazine that decides to boom a small-time Texas politician (Kenny Delmar) for the presidency. The politician is meanwhile running for re-election as state senator against a young veteran (Danny Scholl). The plot is thickened by stirring in the old candidate's daughter (Mary Hatcher) to be the young candidate's sweetheart...
Perhaps the outstanding feature of this movie is the integrity of its producer, Claude Autant Lara, in moulding the story for the screen. The plot must have posed many problems in presentation, most of which have been solved quite nicely. M. Lara has managed to be adequately delicate without sacrificing too much impact...