Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wife. When the wife and a cop turn on the girl in a gaudy den of pleasure, she jumps out of a, window as the best way to avoid an explanation. Unfortunately, a tree outside breaks her fall. She lives. The play doesn't. It is a violent melodrama, a case of theatrical hiccoughs...
...LADY?The drumhead of old-fashioned melodrama perfectly pounded by Mary Nash and a well trained troupe...
...LADY?Resounding reminder of the "You ain't done right by our Nell" days of melodrama...
About a reel of utterly worthless material should be excised and quietly thrown away. Remaining would be a smartly dressed melodrama, with Miss Murray acting a good deal better than usual in a decidedly interesting part...
Flaming Barriers seems a notable attempt at leisurely comedy which misses fire. It misses fire until the last few hundred feet, when a forest conflagration banishes the leisurely plot and burns the whole thing in a blaze of melodrama. The fire enables Jacqueline Logan and Antonio Moreno to prove her father's fire-fighting apparatus the most efficient in the world. Since everyone but the villain had been trying to prove this throughout the picture, it was the normal solution. The earlier stages of the action, dealing with life in a Main Street Manufacturing Company, are only mildly arousing. Miss...