Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...terrific melodrama of history called The Spanish Armada is a play within the play. Captured by the English defenders is a Spanish nobleman. In love with him is the lovely English heroine. The whole thing ends up with a lot of deaths, a fearful sea fight and a pageant for British victory. Through it all, the Critic sits by and thinks everything wonderful...
...DOVE ? Mandolin melodrama below the Mexican border in which the smart American outmaneuvers the oily Mexican and wins the girl...
Aloma of the South Seas. A simmering melodrama (by John B. Hymer and LeRoy Clemens) of the islands where all white men are no good has herewith arrived and given every evidence of appealing to the public taste. Naturally enough, the particular man in the case turns out very good indeed at the last, gives up his native housekeeper and falls into the arms of his old sweetheart from the States. Before he can accomplish this, it is necessary to rid the plot of her unpleasant husband. The riddance is ably assisted by a jealous native and a school...
...story of the Solomon Islands this story was stripped and put on reels. A girl lands in the Islands, gets into the management of a plantation, is kidnapped, survives a native mutiny, marries her partner. Pauline Starke is the lady, Tom Moore the partner. Their history is all melodrama of the normal type, well done and entertaining...
Proud Flesh. The burlesque idea is gaining favor. Again the old-fashioned melodrama of the Spanish señorita, the laborer lover, the angry Spanish suitor is prepared. Its general age and weight are ridiculed. Eleanor Boardman, Harrison Ford and others are involved. Such productions are the cinema's saving sense of humor...