Word: trite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part of an insurance claims investigator, a Mr. Keyes, now appears on the scene and stirs the plot into a boil. Events follow each other in rapid succession, and before the audience knows it the picture is at an end--and a conclusion, may we say, that is exceptionally trite and uninteresting...
...insurance-claims investigator, Robinson plays his usual stock role and steals several scenes from MacMurray. Walter Noff (MacMurray) isn't as smart as his chief, however, and Robinson scraps his perfect crime to save the insurance company $100,000. But there isn't a trite "crime doesn't pay" line anywhere...
...protector has not escaped its editor's barbs. Captain Charlton wrote Monty's first Order of the Day in the desert. Thereafter the General wrote his own, but Charlton edited some of them. Said the Captain of the General: "He kept using the same old trite phrases...
...Jean-de-Luz trouble awaits the trio-and the play. Nazis make up the reception committee, and it requires a lot of trite, melodramatic hokum to get past the receiving line. After that, the colonel "reforms" and practically falls in love with Jacobowsky; and the two escape-across a sea of soupy sentiment-to England...
...rest of the cast was too hopelessly burdened with the almost unbelievably trite lines to display much in the way of acting ability. (One old gentleman on our right affirmed solemnly that the dialogue in several scenes was used, in pantomime, in "Birth of a Nation...