Word: subplot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot deals with an exiled king and the machinations of the rich American widow who is in love with him to restore him to the throne. As a subplot there is a prince, the destined husband of the king's daughter, who meets the princess incognito so as to be loved for himself alone. Other playwrights have employed dramatic or humorous incidents from nuclei as unpromising as this. But the lines of the present attraction at the Apollo are so amateurish and crudely done that there is no such happy issue. When comedy is the object, the authors take such...
...bounds of national interest and becomes a contest for the breathless world to watch. His scenes with Lady Beaconfield (Mrs. Arliss) are touching, without being sentimental; with Lord Probert (Ernest Torrence) he transmates financial discussions into powerful drama. The lovely Joan Bennett has charm in the innocuous romantic subplot. But none of the other characters are, or need to be, outstanding. The leading man carries off the play...
...master-gunman, has been replaced by a palatial and enormous nightclub with modernistic settings. It does not seem reasonable that the clients of such an establishment would pay to see such inexpert dancing as Glenn Tryon's and Merna Kennedy's. Features of the cops-&-robbers subplot which once seemed original have been used so often in other films that they are stale stuff by now. Best shot: Evelyn Brent in evening clothes...
...Coroner's Court and saves her husband. But the remorseful fellow insists on babbling about his sins to his wife and begging her forgiveness. Disgusted, she explains to him her diabolical philosophy of security. Then Jim Mapleson crawls off and shoots himself. The play peters out in a subplot...
...Alan Roscoe. She still likes Meighan and hangs around his farm so much that the Ku Klux Klan warns him to let married women alone. Meighan wants a wife and no jezebelling so he goes to Ellis Island and makes a deal with an immigrant girl, Renee Adoree. A subplot (Roscoe has a mistress) makes possible a climax complicated in synopsis but effective melodrama on the screen. James Cruze directed and Rex Beach, who taught many studio writers all they know about making a thriller, wrote the story. Best shot: Renee Adoree in swimming at night in a coal black...