Word: unwound
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Passage to Marseille" spends too much time on the background material, the escape of a bunch of convicts from Devil's Island who want to fight on our team, and the plot is almost unwound before the film gets around to the actual passage to Marseille. We can't remember having heard the story before: it's about a French freighter carrying a valuable shipment of nickel, and also carrying fascists and democrats who struggle for control of the freight...
...Crimson unwound after a while, and only an unfortunate fumble kept the score from being 13-6 after a 60-yard sustained drive which had Ray Eder, Paul Garrity, and Bill Henry taking turns in hitting the tackles and sweeping the ends for steady gains
...hastily changed from a Martinique bordello to a gambling casino. In Manhattan the producer decided to gamble on the bordello. Without it - since the point of the story is that Madame Rowena's establishment is mis taken for a girl's school - the plot could hardly have unwound, which might have been a very good thing. For, without letup, the book grinds its spurs into its one spavined joke from a starting post of tastelessness to a finish line of tedium...
Last week, in a Brooklyn courtroom, at the Government's spy trial, the testimony unwound the story of two worlds in conflict...
...Letter (Warner) is almost actionless. It opens with a murder, somewhat later shows a creepy sequence among hidden hallways in the Chinese quarter of Singapore. Otherwise the plot is unwound with conversation rather than movement - usually fatal for cinema. Furthermore, it is a rather conventional mystery story, the tale of a sly and devious wife (Bette Davis) of a British rubber planter (Herbert Marshall) who murders her lover when he appears to be losing interest. There is a trial, an acquittal, a day of reckoning. Moving, as it does, at a laggardly pace, it should, according to all the rules...