The stereotyped plot line follows the " boy-gets-girl ", " boy-loses-girl ", " boy gets girl back again " sequence.

In the screenplay by Anthony Hinds, the main character's name was changed from Doctor Syn to Parson Blyss to avoid rights problems with Disney's upcoming film version, and Captain Cleggs screenplay follows the novel Doctor Syn and the screenplay of the 1937 film closely with the exception of a tightening of the plot.

This version of the film follows the same plot but pays more attention to popular jazz music and includes such jazz legends as Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, and Benny Carter playing themselves.

The plot follows his amoral and manipulative scheme to become leader of the governing party and Prime Minister.

His book The Diamond Age follows a simpler plot but features " neo-Victorian " characters and employs Victorian-era literary conceits.

The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who is faced with " retiring " six escaped Nexus-6 brain model androids, the latest and most advanced model, while a secondary plot follows John Isidore, a man of sub-normal intelligence who aids the fugitive androids.

The story follows the basic Biblical plot.

The plot follows five students at fictional Shermer High School in the fictitious Chicago suburb of Shermer, Illinois as they report for Saturday detention on March 24, 1984.

The plot follows a mysterious stranger ( Eastwood ) who arrives in a brooding Western town where the people hire him to protect them against three soon-to-be-released felons.

* British — Ashton, Helen: Pierrot in Town ( 1913 ); Barrington, Pamela: White Pierrot ( 1932 ); Callaghan, Stella: " Pierrot and the Black Cat " ( 1921 ), Pierrot of the World ( 1923 ); Deakin, Dorothea: The Poet and the Pierrot ( 1905 ); Herring, Paul: The Pierrots on the Pier: A Holiday Entertainment ( 1914 ); Priestley, J. B .: The Good Companions ( 1929 ; plot follows fortunes of a Pierrot troupe, The Dinky Doos ; has had many adaptations, for stage, screen, TV, and radio ).

The film contains no scenes, characters, or dialogue from Red Harvest, whereas it follows the plot and main characters of The Glass Key fairly closely.

The plot of the movie basically follows Hugo's novel, but there are a large number of differences.

The plot of the epic costume drama follows the globe-trotting adventures of the title character, the illegitimate offspring of Maria Bonnyfeather, the bride of the cruel and devious middle-aged nobleman Marquis Don Luis, and Denis Moore.

The film loosely follows the novel ’ s plot, emphasizing the human relationships instead of Lem ’ s astrobiology theories — especially Kelvin ’ s Earth life, before his space travel to the planet.

The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Parthian War to Cleopatra's suicide during the Final War of the Roman Republic.

The plot follows a secret branch of the United States ' National Security Agency who have developed a time travelling device based upon alien technology found at Roswell.

If rage is accepted as a pre-verbal, pre-cognitive phenomenon ( and sufferers describe it colloquially as " losing the plot ") then it follows that cognitive strategies, eliciting commitments to behave differently or educational programs ( the most common forms of interventions in the UK presently ) are contra-indicated.

Its screen story fairly closely follows the plot of " Second Variety ".

In a play that follows a climatic plot construction, Dionysus the Protagonist, instigates the unfolding action by simultaneously emulating the play's author, costume designer, choreographer and artistic director.

The plot follows the novel by Franz Werfel, which is not a documentary but a historical novel blending fact and fiction.

The plot closely follows, and expands upon, the film of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

The arcade-style game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis: The Action Game designed by Attention To Detail was released almost simultaneously with its adventure counterpart, and loosely follows its plot.

His own analysis identified fairy tales by their plot elements, but that in itself has been criticized, as the analysis does not lend itself easily to tales that do not involve a quest, and furthermore, the same plot elements are found in non-fairy tale works.

Insofar as The Dark Tower series ' overall plot is concerned, it is revealed in the seventh book that Ted is essential to the Crimson King's quest to break the beams that hold the Dark Tower up, in turn, holding the universe together.

Peach is playable between chapters, where she allies with a star named Twink in the castle to relay vital information to Mario regarding his quest, this is ironic, as the player already knows the plot details revealed, where as Mario does not.

The plot follows Dexter on a quest through time as he finds out his future triumphs.

* In the online mulitplayer game RuneScape, there is a quest called " The Great Brain Robbery ", with similar plot elements.

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.

The plot revolves around Sarah's quest to reach the center of an enormous otherworldly maze to rescue her infant brother Toby, who has been kidnapped by Jareth, the Goblin King.

The swords or the techniques used to wield them may be effectively or explicitly supernatural, and the quest for such swords or techniques may be a major plot element.

In mythology and literature, a quest, a journey towards a goal, serves as a plot device and ( frequently ) as a symbol.

When a hero is on a quest for several objects that are only a convenient reason for his journey, they are termed plot coupons.

The Catcher in the Rye is often thought of as a quest plot, detailing Holden's search not for a tangible object but for a sense of purpose or reason.

The overarching plot in both the original and re-imagined Battlestar Galactica is the quest to find Earth, which is thought to be the location of the thirteenth colony of Kobol, the purported true homeworld of humanity.

The frantically paced plot revolves around a doomed man's quest to find out who has poisoned him, and why.

His quest and belief in the existence of aliens was, for most of the series, the driving force of the plot, or mytharc.

Some critics found the plot to be a conventional " unravel-the-secret " and " woman on a quest " thriller.

The game's plot centers around Wario and his quest to regain his treasure and his castle from Black Jewel, an evil gem.

As the plot is not woven around a single pivotal action, the inextricable maze of most cunningly contrived episodes are seen to be linked, first, with the quest of beautiful Angelica by love-smitten Orlando and the other enamoured knights, then with the defence of Albracca by Angelica's father, the King of Cathay, against the beleaguering Tartars, and, finally, with the Moors ' siege of Paris and their struggle with Charlemagne's army.

With the addition of Nur An, a disaffected Jaharian warrior, and another escaped woman slave, Phao, Hadron's quest becomes more collaborative than Burroughs ' usual, although Tavia, in an unsurprising plot development, is revealed to be a princess at the end.

The plot of the fairy tale is that Stan looks up in the sky and sees only half the moon, he sets out on a quest to search for the missing half.

As Link and his three counterparts wander the overworld of Hyrule Field on their quest to restore peace to Hyrule, they learn that the creation of Link's evil counterpart and the release of Vaati is only a small part in an insidious plot to conquer the land of Hyrule and the world beyond.

The central plot of the game centers around the Bogard brothers ' ( Terry and Andy ) quest to avenge their father's death, who was murdered by Geese a decade before the events of the game.

He discovers a plot to kill the Legendary Hero and decides to set out on a quest to protect him.

Somewhere along the way, the two plot lines converge, and the quest to take revenge on Chaz becomes tied up with the aim of stopping Red ’ s pollution.