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The climax is almost as strong, and watching Laurence Harvey collapse completely as his
scheme
is exposed brings the movie to a satisfying finish.
Early in the story we are treated to a colorful but talky exposition which sets the plot in motion: On the day the Civil War starts, Jim Fisk (Edward Arnold), itinerant peddler, and his partners in crime (Cary Grant and Jack Oakie) devise a
scheme
to buy cotton cheaply in the South, smuggle it North and sell it at a high price to New England mills, thus launching the career of one of the fabled financial speculators of the 19th century.
But the gentle narrative eschews the obvious cliché, and it's also nice to see a story set in a Scottish housing
scheme
that isn't just a tale of drugs and A.I.D.S.
It all climaxes with a prison rodeo, and an elaborate breakout
scheme.
Mariemaya Krushrenada was a victim of greed in this movie, and a pawn in a bigger
scheme
planned by her sick, sedistic, madman she calls Grandfather (Dekim Barton).
This is a story about a man who discovers an evil plot and risks everything to thwart the
scheme.
Carla (Kristin Minter) and Rachel (Megan Ward)
scheme
to kill Rachel's wealthy husband, Holden (David Dukes), to get the whole inheritance.
She's the mastermind of the
scheme.
Since food is scarce in the film's world, Clapet has devised a
scheme
to provide himself and his tenants with a regular supply of meat--he runs ads in the local paper for handymen, and after they fix a few things on the building, they become the main course.
This movie was a tax
scheme.
In the final scheme, a children's film that tried to be adult but wasn't and wasn't children enough to be a children's film.....
"The Jayhawkers" was released in 1959 and starred Jeff Chandler as an ambitious person eager to control pre-War Kansas, and Fess Parker has to try and stop him in his
scheme.
So he decides to cook up a
scheme
to get them engaged.
To avoid scandal and the possibility of divorce and losing half his fortune, Auteuil and his lawyer concoct a
scheme
whereby an innocent bystander (Gad Elmaleh) who happened to be very close when the incriminating pictures were snapped will be paid to pretend that Taglioni is his girlfriend and living with him.
This is a very clever marketing
scheme
to give parents the opportunity to claim their children's inability to fit in is evidence of their being at a higher level of human evolution.
Michael Douglas takes over from Ray Milland as a slimy rich chap married to unfaithful Gwyneth Paltrow; he blackmails her lover (Viggo Mortenson) into murdering her, but both his
scheme
and the movie go chronically wrong.
In 1938 China, a pretty but prim missionary needs to find a hidden stash of smuggled opium (for medicinal purposes!) and attempts to recruit the help of a ratty-looking con-man; his latest get-rich-quick
scheme
is glow-in-the-dark ties!
How long will it take the victims to figure out the
scheme
of the vicious girl friend?
When this proves to be the case a
scheme
by an eccentric biology researcher to fund his project come to light and we see what led to the initial grisly murder.
Gianna was also Marco's lover, and the two
scheme
to murder Nancy because when she "comes of age", the inheritance is hers.
In KTG, Cags plays Ralph Cotter who after a daring and violent daylight prison break, uses his smarts to prove that he is no small timer and formulates a grand
scheme
to garner lots of cash and protection which involves crooked lawyers and crooked policemen.
Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Dan Ackroyd, Ben Kingsley, River Phoenix, David Strathairn, and Mary McDonnell star in "Sneakers," a film about security guys who get involved in a
scheme
to steal for the government.
While she and Stacy wonder about the status of their
scheme
as they lollygag around the swimming pool, Hill realizes what has happened and decides he is not going to be done in quite that easily.
The direction and cinematography are top notch throughout with evocative use of reds and whites in the color scheme, in keeping with the character of Lady Snowblood.
I mean he gets Howard, a weaker man to go along with his ruthless
scheme
even though it is quite obvious that he really doesn't want to.
What with US army personnel parading around London in uniform before the US had entered the war; the stock footage of the 1970s era London Ambulance rushing the agent to the hospital; the "military" DC3 in civilian paint scheme; the Rolls driving around with headlights full on in the blackout; the "French Port" with lights blazing, also in the blackout; the "Social Club" in London that had both male and female members; the two "heroes" jumping out of the aircraft without a jump-master; and... Well, I could go on and on but I think you get the point.
At the same time, their cousin Bobby (Jason Andrews) finds himself dangerously in debt and when collection time nears, Ralphie agrees to help him raise the needed cash through an ingenious and illicit
scheme.
Another
scheme
to trick "Casablanca" fans into the theater by including favorite actors from that film in a war story with an exotic setting, this idiotic mess has a famously convoluted structure involving flashbacks within flashbacks that renders it virtually unwatchable.
SOMEWHERE IN THE NIGHT is not only a pleasure in terms of plot and atmosphere, it is filled with terrific supporting actors: Lloyd Nolan, Jeff Corey, Whit Bissell, Sheldon Leonard, Henry Morgan, Fritz Kortner, and the superb, virtually ignored Josephine Hutchinson, who has the emotional center of the film as a lonely victim of the murderous
scheme.
It took quite a while before I could figure out all of the pieces of this
scheme
and the people involved which I enjoy.
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