Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kiss Me Again. Ernst Lubitsch is our other great director, imported but no less great. Griffith is the master of mass and melodrama, loud laughter and tumbling tears. Lubitsch is the genius of the nimbler gaieties-the subtle graces of light comedy. He has taken a thin old story of the businessman, the bored wife and the Plutonic musician and made it grow and ripple with amusement. He has even made Monte Blue seemingly a good actor...
indefatigable Western formulas are followed again to form a moderate melodrama adapted from Hamlin Garland's story Cavanaugh, Forest Ranger. The girl's father?an outlaw for murder? returned to save her and her lover in the cabin pistol battle...
...BLUE-H. C. McNeile ("Sapper")-Doran ($2.00). Melodrama being his métier, the author of Bull Dog Drummond fares only moderately well on the cramped stage of the short story. His happiest efforts are with humor and suspense, as Uncle James's Golf Match-a rib-splitter-and the titular tale of this collection, wherein a murder is averted by the veriest trifle. In other instances, suspense is fool's gold. The nugget of denouement fails to pan out. In still others- The Porterhouse Steak, about a starving but proud war hero; The Film That Never...
...play shows alarming symptoms at the start of becoming either a way-down-East nature study with one of those everlasting lovable characters in it, or a big battling melodrama of the Western plains. Having proceeded for some time in both of these directions, it suddenly realizes the mistake, and introduces a most ingenious and accomplished Mexican bandit. From then on it is sure fire stuff. It would even be funny in Mexico...
...DOVE-A tailor-made melodrama of the Mexican dancehall, happy-ending type, in which Judith Anderson and Holbrook Blinn do some stylish acting...