Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crashing Hollywood (RKO Radio). Oldtimer Lee Tracy, Joan Woodbury and a group of recidivists from the RKO stock company make melodrama among the studio's sound stages. Old hokum, new style...
...WELL OF ARARAT - Emmanuel Varandyan-Donbleday, Doran ($2.50). Brooding melodrama, against a colorful pre-War Persian village background, in which an introspective boy plays a passionate part in wrecking his uncle's marriage...
...last. Setting out to review "The Film in Germany and France 1896-1927" the first of the three programs dealing with Germany tonight includes: 1896 Primitive German films by the pioneer Skladanowsky (Reichsflilmkammer) 1909 Don Juan's Wedding, a comedy with the actor Giampietro (Reichsflilmkammer) 1912 Misunderstood, a melodrama with Germany's most popular actress, Henry Porten (Reichsflilmkammer) 1920 The Golem: one sequence only. Directed by the eminent actor Paul Wegener, who also plays the title role (Ufa) 1919 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, directed by Robert Wieni. Most celebrated of foreign films, it has seldom been shown...
This is an odd beginning for a comedy-and comic True Confession is skillfully played and paced, keyed up to the pitch of the dizziest haywire skit. Yet what makes True Confession funnier than most haywire comedies is that as melodrama it could be just as effective. Neither liar Helen nor Kenneth, the man of principle, is caricatured, so their dilemma seems true and could be terrible; outside the hilarity nightmare is imminent...
...Postman Always Rings Twice James Mallahan Cain wrote a brief, brisk best-seller in which philosophic overtones could be dimly heard above the rattling melodrama of the plot. Last week he published a second novel that is just as melodramatic as his first, a little longer, equally swift reading. It has its quota of close shaves, fights, flights and two-dimensional characters, suggests an old-fashioned pulp magazine thriller brought up to date by a writer who knows Freud as well as all tricks of suspense. Its hero (and narrator) is a world-famous singer who has lost his voice...