Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SILENCE-A heedless melodrama with many flaws and an enormous amount of excitement. H. B. Warner is the hero crook who did not commit the murder...
SILENCE?Starts in a death house, jumps back to the murder, evades the electric chair. H. B. Warner and a tense, if trivial, melodrama...
SILENCE?A back-switch melodrama of murder with very little literature but no end of excitement...
Silence. Time was when the melodrama factories worked double shift turning out absorbing trash to the public taste. Of late years, the melodrama market has slumped and the mental machineries turned to other products. Max Marcin caught the operators napping with a sound old timer, perfectly played by H. B. Warner and geared so high that even the wicked old critics felt thrills crawling busily about them...
Shipwrecked owes more to Science than it does to Shakespeare. By an ingenious combination of scenery and electricity, a burning ship at sea crackles before the audience's eyes. The rest is melodrama...