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support troupers will make any movie portraying crime and romance look different.
Time, place and personality cards, (many times fifty-two) provide variations that reduce any strong similarities in the finished product to a minimum. Of course the hands will repeat themselves eventually — combinations are not really infinite — but the repetitions will be so far apart and resemblance so feeble, when it does occur, very few notice it. But wait, those are not all the cards in the scripter's sleeve.
There is the partially-concealed menace, of which the hero and the heroine are unaware, the menace known only to the audience and the villain, or the situational menace, the big bad wolf of make-believe.
Situation, whether the result of a mistake or misunderstanding, whether intentional or unintentional, unwitting or contrived, implied or deliberate, is in essence deception, the number one menace of all cinematurgy.
If properly furthered, deception can produce fear and uncertainty of the deadliest kind. And now let us consider some of the different kinds of deception practiced upon the virtuous and upright, the canny and quick as well as the innocent and stupid heroes, and heroines.
Deliberate Deceptions
First there is the deliberate or intentional deception : The innocent country girl meets the handsome stranger from the city. A brief romance mid scenes pastoral and then one morning a villager reports the stranger hiking in the direction of the depot. Then the baby. The family she works for adopts it and she goes looking for its papa.
Grandma sorrowed for that poor trusting female for weeks. Even today we manage to wrork up a tear or two for that unfortunate victim of man's duplicity, the oldest new deception on the screen.
And the innocent country lad with an inheritance and a yen for show business who gets himself took by city slickers ; and oh the movies with the heroine exposing the lecherous playboy on the make for her innocent sister.
And the ambitious fathers who want to be millionaires, taken by fake oil or gold stock swindles, their
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