Word: maudlinity
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Foreclosed Horizons. When Hogan arrives, maudlin-drunk and without witnesses, he swears that he had schemed only for Josie's happiness. As Jim stirs and strides away, father & daughter get a glimpse of permanently foreclosed horizons, and Jim knows that he can never find peace of soul...
...Dozen" sounded foolish, and for probably no other reason at all, it was named "Belles On Their Toes." It continues the story of a prolific female engineer, her twelve miraculously self-sufficient off-spring, and a servant named Hoagy Carmichael. It is not an insufferably hilarious picture. In the maudlin machinations of twelve small children there is probably warm, lovable, nostalgic, human appeal, if you happen to like that sort of thing...
...John dramatizes a theme of front-page importance. Unfortunately, its subject is relegated to the more colorful but less newsworthy show-business section. The complex dramatic material is reduced to simple melodramatics and, in Leo McCarey's plodding direction of a muddled and maudlin screenplay, the picture has not much to offer either politically or cinematically...
Ralph Blane's music and lyrics are only mediocre. One number, Goin' On a Hayride, stands out in my mind, but the rest are ordinary "hear 'em today, forget 'em tomorrow" tunes. The music seemed generally better than the maudlin lyrics, but in most cases the production numbers were well outside of the plot line...
They can afford to kill off Peter Lorre in the first fifteen minutes of Casablanca. That's how good it is. Ten years of flashier and more expensive movies leave this picture still on top. It is tough, cynical, sentimental, and maudlin, a slick movie about refugees and black marketers that somehow is better for its slickness...