* The title Larry Niven's Rainbow Mars ( 1999 ) alludes to Robinson's three-colored Mars trilogy, and the plot concerns a time machine that is used to visit ancient Mars.

' " The studio and Shatner himself had few concerns about the plot point.

* Melodrama – sentimental drama with musical underscoring, often with an unlikely plot that concerns the suffering of the good at the hands of evildoers but ends happily with good triumphant.

Based on the short story " Spurs " by Clarence Aaron " Tod " Robbins, the screenwriter of The Unholy Three, the film concerns a love triangle between a wealthy dwarf, a gold-digging aerialist, and a strongman ; a murder plot ; and the vengeance dealt out by the dwarf and his fellow circus freaks.

The plot concerns the troubles that Sir Francis Varney inflicts upon the Bannerworths, a formerly wealthy family driven to ruin by their recently deceased father.

The plot concerns the attempt of the hero Belmonte, assisted by his servant Pedrillo, to rescue his beloved Konstanze from the seraglio of the Pasha Selim.

The basic plot concerns Groucho, as explorer Captain Geoffrey ( or Jeffrey ) T. Spaulding, attending a party in his honor at the estate of society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse, and investigating the theft of a valuable painting during the party.

* Total Recall ( 1990 ) – A science fiction action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, where the plot concerns an apparently unsophisticated construction worker who turns out to be a freedom fighter from Mars and has been relocated to Earth.

The plot concerns a power struggle between two rival gangs and how the protagonist, Tom Reagan ( Gabriel Byrne ), plays both sides off each other.

Dedicated to " the memory of Florence Nightingale ", the plot concerns the travails and romances of young women as they study to become nurses.

The plot concerns the underside of the Irish War of Independence, set in 1922.

The plot of the movie, which bears little resemblance to Yeats-Brown's memoir, concerns British soldiers defending the borders of India against rebellious natives.

The plot concerns the machinations of a soon-to-be-divorced couple, played by Dunne and Grant, who go to great lengths to try to ruin each other's romantic escapades.

" Fritz Senn has also voiced concerns with some plot synopses, saying " we have some traditional summaries, also some put in circulation by Joyce himself.

Set mainly in Paris in 1979, the plot concerns a scheme by an alien, Scaroth, to steal the Mona Lisa to finance experiments in time travel in the hope of averting the accident that marooned him on Earth four hundred million years previously, which also began the existence of life on the planet as well.

Its plot concerns Supergirl, Superman's cousin, leaving her isolated Kryptonian community of Argo City for Earth in an effort to retrieve the unique " Omegahedron ", which has fallen into the hands of the evil witch Selena ( Faye Dunaway ).

With attention to the detail of day-to-day airport and airline operations, the plot concerns the response to a paralyzing snowstorm, environmental concerns over noise pollution, and an attempt to blow up an airliner.

The plot of the movie concerns Kelly Collins, a free-spirited eighth grade girl whose mother gets married to Brigadier General Joe " Sir " Maxwell ( Gary Cole ).

The opera's plot concerns the consequences of the spear's loss by the Knights of the Grail and its recovery by Parsifal.

Their plot concerns struggle of heroes against demonic forces.

The plot concerns the children of the Duke of Omnium, Plantagenet Palliser, and his late wife, Lady Glencora.

Much of the plot concerns Boston Harbor's Spectacle Island which at the time of publication was almost entirely composed of garbage.

The plot concerns a merchant, Mr Sterling, who wants to marry off his elder daughter to Sir John Melvil, who is actually in love with her younger sister, Fanny.

The Lord of the Rings contains several more supporting scenes, and has a more sophisticated plot structure, following the paths of multiple characters.

Many writers have borrowed plot elements from Lord of the Flies.

; 1858: The Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, responds to the Orsini plot against French emperor Napoleon III, the bombs for which were purchased in Birmingham, by attempting to make such acts a felony ; the resulting uproar forces him to resign.

Voldemort has also been compared with other characters within fiction, for example Sauron from The Lord of the Rings ; they are, during the time when the main plot takes place, seeking to recover their lost power after having been considered dead or at least no longer a threat, and are also so feared that they are sometimes unnamed.

This plot, launched with the full knowledge of Nivelle and the French Prime Minister Aristide Briand, was announced in guarded terms at a War Cabinet meeting on 24 February, to which neither Robertson nor Lord Derby ( Secretary of State for War ) had been invited, then landed on Robertson and Haig without warning at an Anglo-French conference at Calais ( 26-7 Feb ).

Tolkien has managed to incorporate into the imagery elements of plot ( the horn that was blowing ), his consistent thematic imagery of West and shadow and imagery of the constant seasonal and linear flow of irretrievable time that gives The Lord of the Rings an authentically Anglo-Saxon note.

At the end of the Third Age, the palantíri were major plot points during the events of The Lord of the Rings.

On 27 March the Earl of Morton and Lord Ruthven, who were both present at Rizzio's murder and had fled to England, wrote to Cecil explaining that Darnley had initiated the murder plot and recruited them, because of his " heich quarrel " and " deadly hatred " of Rizzio.

A plot to murder Darnley is later planned and carried out by Lord Bothwell ( Nigel Davenport ), Mary's illegitimate half-brother Lord Moray ( Patrick McGoohan ), and the various Scottish Lords who participated in the murder of Rizzio ( Huntly, Morton, Falconside, and others ).

* Diana Gabaldon, in her most recent book, The Scottish Prisoner ( A Lord John Novel ), references some lines from a poetic version of the Wild Hunt in relation to a Jacobite plot developing in Ireland.

Gaiman himself has summarized the plot of the series ( in the foreword to Endless Nights ) as " The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision.

" He noted that the game's plot and visual and aural presentation fit together to create a thick atmosphere, and finished, " Forget all those other milestone adventures ( Zork, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings et al ) — for sheer enjoyment and general all-round perfection, The Secret of Monkey Island creams ' em all in style.

As a result of this plot, Ravana asks for Goddess Parvathi, and Lord Shiva offers him.

The plot does not seem to follow any of the existing canon, but uses plot devices from several different story arcs from the manga, mostly the Lord Of Terror arc.

Serfs who occupied a plot of land were required to work for the Lord of the Manor who owned that land, and in return were entitled to protection, justice and the right to exploit certain fields within the manor to maintain their own subsistence.

The Lord of the Castle, Sir William the Hardy, Lord of Douglas, learned of this and came up with a clever plot where one man sneaked into the castle and threw open the gates, allowing Lord Douglas to seize it.

J. R. R. Tolkien wanted to use this as the overall title for the third volume of The Lord of the Rings, feeling that the title " The Return of the King " gave away too much of the plot.

Despite Mrs Erlynne's honest attempts to persuade her to return home to her husband, Lady Windermere is convinced her appearance is part of some plot conceived by her and Lord Windermere.

The One Ring from J. R. R. Tolkien's novel, The Lord of the Rings has been labeled a plot device, since the quest to destroy it drives the entire plot of the novel.