Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before our very eyes, is undeniably the most effective means of presenting those stories of action which depend for their chief interest on the interplay of incident. To put William S. Hart on the stage and confine him almost exclusively to words, would be to revive the old bombastic melodrama, where, instead of seeing the hero jump onto his trusty horse and dash madly up and down mountain sides in pursuit of the villain, we should have the heroine gazing out a painted window from which she would turn now and then to gasp to us, "There he goes, there...