Word: cinemelodramas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example of old-style cinemelodrama, Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back is an entertaining Hollywood elaboration, replete with London fogs, funny policemen, disgruntled Scotland Yard inspectors. Good shot: Hassan and Singh rearing their ugly heads behind the sofa on which Lola Fields has fallen into an unwary doze...
...Seconds (First National) is a turgid cinemelodrama of the moral bankrupting and liquidation of an honorable sucker (Edward G. Robinson). It opens with Robinson assuming the attitude in an electric chair and it is based on the unscientific theory that a man's life unreels itself, complete with dialog, in the two seconds between the first twitch of the electricity and unconsciousness. Recapitulating, Robinson sees himself as a happy steelworker on a girder with his friend (Preston Foster). Soon, still happy, he is refusing to get involved with a pretty, scheming dancehall girl (Vivienne Osborne). She fills him full...
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