Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dark (thanks to fuzzy photography), these plants have an air of dogged determination and ven group solidarity. The film's live cast does its best to emulate the trees by wooden acting and an old saw of a plot. But the humans come off second best in this saga of lumberjacks versus homesteaders in the wilds of Olde Californee...
Novelist O'Hara has seized on a solid theme, but has not written a novel fully worthy of it. The Son of Adam Wyngate is a meandering, overstuffed family saga, all too full of the human tedium which the skilled novelist suggests without reporting in grim detail. Clumsily written and badly in need of saving irony, The Son of Adam Wyngate reads more like an unedited transcript of family disaster than a dramatic portrait...
...Otto Ernst Remer felt no shame about his work. Two years ago he began going from town to town under the auspices of the neo-Nazi Socialist Reich Party, telling avid listeners the great saga of how he had served the Führer and confounded the traitors. He became a minor hero, and grew bolder and bolder until last May 3, in Brunswick, he shouted: "These conspirators of July 20 are to a great extent traitors to their country...
...Davison had run a small airport in Cheshire, England. He married Ann, a licensed pilot, soon after she went to work for him. The war put the Davisons' airport out of business, and they had to start from scratch at something new. As Ann tells it, the Davison saga was a succession of failures strung on a theme of hard luck. They tried gravel quarrying, farming, raising purebred goats. When Ann said, "You know, Frank, I could do with some real gut stirring," her husband said, "So could I." That led to the Reliance - and an ordeal that lifts...
...plain talk, this saga of the Young Pretender is too static to be a good adventure story...