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Lloyd Bridges, cast as police sergeant Ed Stagg, has discovered that the husband (Frank Converse) of his daughter Tina (Sallie Shockley) is dallying with a local chippy and during Stagg's attempts to end the adultery, he accidentally commits a murder, upon which he forges a plan to place responsibility for the crime upon a local inebriate, tangentially providing a question of the title: was Scott's "What a tangled web we weave..." (Marmion) the intended source, inaptly transposed into "tattered"?
The back-story behind Warner Bros.' JEZEBEL -- itself widely regarded among critics and connoisseurs of the films of Bette Davis (and the late Thirties in general) as that of a consolation film given to Davis when the "hunt" for Scarlett O'Hara was in full swing -- is as long and convoluted as the tangled passions within the story shown on screen.
As the narrative becomes even more tangled, yet never contrived, we are drawn to the true heart of the film-Lone Scherfig's deft and loving examination of the characters' interactions.
Satellites are shown post-war, blown apart in a tangled mass resembling a fallen space station.
Art Carney and Lily Tomlin are amazingly well-matched playing the convincingly mismatched pair who unravel the tangled mystery, and Bill Macy is equally fine as a friendly bartender-cum-talent agent.
This surprisingly primitive 'streamliner' comedy from the Roach Studios -- with the collapse of the comedy short subject market in the mid-thirties, Hal Roach decided to go into feature production, first with films like the TOPPER series and later with second features that timed in at less than an hour -- contains all the standard cheap comedy motifs, including a Murphy Bed -- and runs through them in a rather mechanical fashion as made-it-from-scratch taxi fleet owners William Bendix and Joe Sawyer get tangled up with a girl who tries to kill herself and declares herself their responsibility.
This tangled, jumbled mess of a film makes little if any sense at all.
What a tangled web!
Fletch goes South to family homestead only to get tangled in local shenanigans.
Sidewalks of New York, is , as everyone has pointed out, an ersatz Woody Allenish comedy about a group of tangled relationships in New York.
But the tangled web of the characters' lives was pretty compelling, especially against the backdrop of New York City.
The plot is maybe more tangled than that of "The Usual Suspects", and there are enough distorted/out-of-chronological order events, half-remembered/repeated/altered lines and "was-it-all-a-dream-or-was-it-real?" tricks to baffle even the most avid mystery fan.
Whilst I have never been to the country it did seem that part of the lifeblood of this movie was the tangled city of contradictions itself.
Juice is a well made drama that focuses on 4 kids who just get tangled up in a bad situation.
James Cagney plays a permanent patron at a San Francisco honky-tonk, observing the ebb and flow of human traffic and occasionally getting involved in the tangled lives of clichéd characters.
It is indeed sad to see so many talented actors tangled up in this unfortunate yawner.
Why?Europe has no policy responses open to it to respond to such a calamity because its fiscal situation is already weak and the new European Central bank is tangled in ineffectiveness and a dated obsession with fighting inflation.
In this regard, history's heritage in Central Europe is extraordinarily tangled.
The Human CitySINGAPORE – The tangled web of international organizations that constitutes global governance has become so remote and ineffective that few count on it to deliver results anymore.
Similarly, kites get tangled in trees, and if you climb the tree to free it, you might look over your neighbor's wall and see a woman without her veil, which would put you in sin.
The end result would be a tangled network of deals that would only exacerbate the balkanization of the international trading system.
Considering the tangled involvement of Iran’s leaders in the economy, the effect of sanctions should not be underestimated.
Geithner also established a tangled web of connections between the New York Fed and JPMorgan Chase, some of which linger to this day.
Brazil’s Economic DeliveranceWASHINGTON, DC – Ongoing corruption investigations in Brazil have exposed a tangled network of illicit relationships between private firms, government bureaucrats, and elected politicians.
But these arguments became tangled up in a broader critique of the Fed’s actions.
In this tangled knot of regional wars, crises, and conflicts, Iran’s nuclear ambitions look like a ticking time bomb – and plenty of new dynamite is being accumulated throughout the region.
The shrug of Rand’s heroic entrepreneurs is to be found today within the tangled ciphers of corporate and government balance sheets.
This is the clearest feature of this tangled affair: the Argentine government wants to increase bilateral trade, while Ahmadinejad wants to be cleared of suspicion in a case that is damaging Iran’s standing across Latin America.
A team of scientists and engineers, rather than diplomats and conflict-resolution experts, can provide a valuable pragmatic lens on what may appear to be a tangled set of political and cultural issues.
The one area where the situation is not quite so tangled, at least from the British perspective, is the euro, which the UK never joined.
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