Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...singular mixture of God and God damn; of moving truth and gaudy melodrama; of authentic dramatic intensity and (at least two examples of) incredible ill taste- such...
...this country before. And were the lady to be let off scot-free and undoubted interest would be added at all performances in the future. Heretofore most movie-murders have been perpetrated on the screen, and the audience has contented itself with a passively vicarious thrill. Recently, even, melodrama has slopped over on to the stage producing several bundred more unjustifiable homieides at which the audience has crected its small hairs in horror. But with the possibility of having a mysterious knife thrust among one's ribs for inadvertent observations on the picture, even a news reel of the Coney...
...Revolution; thus the fortunes of Scaramouche unfold. Unfortunately the quiet talents of that excellent actor Sidney Blackmer fit wretchedly the heroic velvet and sash of the hero. When fiery flame is needed he only smoulders pleasantly. Otherwise the cast and the production are considerably better than the arrant melodrama deserves...
Stephen Rathbun: "Colorful, atmospheric melodrama...
Percy Hammond: "First-class, old time, British Melodrama, done in a smart new-fashioned...