Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Green Goddess. George Bernard Shaw is reported"to have told William Archer (dean of the London critics and author of this melodrama), that he considered this the best motion picture plot he had ever heard. His opinion discloses the fallibility of genius. Despite extraordinarily able performance, beauty and detailed lavishness of settings, and masses of money the picture lodges below the popular pinnacles now occupied by The Covered Wagon and Little Old New York...
...Been Rescued from the Ranks of Melodrama...
...seldom laughed so hard in any theatre as over a scene in which two youngsters seated on a front porch discuss eugenics. What a chance there was for burlesque-and how truly, safely and amusingly Mr. Davis has handled this scene. Mr. Davis' rescue from the ranks of melodrama is to be applauded. No one likes to see melodrama better than do I; but it must be a pleasure to be able to portray life as it really is and make it vitally interesting. Many a man can visualize a heroine saved from a villain's grasp...
...Woman on the Jury. When friends are gathered together in the name of courtroom melodrama one is bound to grant certain of the author's requests. One cannot protest that he has met the District Attorney so many times "before that he really would prefer a change; likewise the counsel for the defense; and the Irish detective. But the woman in the jury box is a newcomer, and for her sake it was that this program of events was scheduled...
...thought will thoroughly enjoy The Spoilers. It is concerned with the Alaskan gold rush and the love of a dance-hall girl. There is much hard riding, hard fighting, hard language. A crooked faro dealer and a good job in dam dynamiting add final fury to the flames of melodrama. Milton Sills plays the hero with desperate determination. There is much sincere savagery distributed among the several villains, while Anna Q. Nilsson, with her hardened, twisting mouth, is good as the dance-hall girl...