Word: melo-drama
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...other hand, the murder in Heat of the Night does seem a bit more earthly than most movie crimes. And the slow, confusing solution probably has more to do with real police-work than its neat, ingenious melo-drama counterparts. Only Jewison isn't content with naturalism either; his detective relies excessively on a rather implausible knowledge of orchids, pules equally obscure and unlikely reservoirs of genius. Perhaps the most extreme example in this regard is the moment when Poitier snatches a weed off the accelerator of the victim's car and, a knowing smile on his face, says "Osmunda...
Dealing with the story of two reporters -- one female and the other supposedly male (yes, another reporter film), Mr. Raymond's latest vehicle does a swell job confusing pure melo-drama with humor not so pure. At times "There Goes My Girl" is definitely amusing, but the stretches of dialogue between the sparse high spots stretch off into the dim, dim distance. The film is not recommended for exam wearied students. Most trite remark: "What are we, men or mice...
...embrace, and an audience worn out with hissing the villain and cheering the hero leaves the Peabody Playhouse mulling over the pleasant taste of the nineties left by the Stagers' presentation of "Gold in the Hills, or The Dead Sister's Secret," a twentieth century conception of nineteenth century melo-drama...
...story of the Baptist-Prophet, is undoubtedly fraught with emotionalism, and the intensity of feeling, the suffering and anticipation which permeate the facts of his life, and the lives of his followers, were in some measure caught by Sudermann. The Repertory version catches even less of that spirit. Melo-drama vies with the ridiculous, approaching farce, where only dignity and religious feeling were intended. The mania for making the unreal appear real, for putting Hamlet in plus fours, can amuse but hardly impress. Perhaps there were wise-cracking merchants in Israel but we can't believe they had Irish-Mayfair...
...hearty reception given his latest play "The Princess Zim-Zim." Although the program labels this piece very simply as "a new play" it might well be called a semi-tragic comedy of realism: a first act of pure and unusually delightful comedy, a second and third of good melo-drama, and finally an epilogue that makes appeals by way of its persistence in sticking to facts, as ordinarily experienced. All in all, one might have wished for more like the beginning; yet the play holds throughout, and as acted by Miss Dorothy Donnelly, Mr. John Barrymore and an even company...