Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King of Alcatraz (Paramount). That old favorite, the escaped gangster disguised as somebody's great-aunt, in a lively melodrama otherwise distinguished chiefly by the complete absence of star names from the cast...
Time Marches backwards through the European scene of the past decade in an interesting reel which might well be called "Downing Street Blues," and which is considerably better than the racetrack melodrama "Speed to Burn," also on the current bill...
Touchdown Army (Paramount). Routine football comedy melodrama, dignified slightly by a West Point background...
Vivid, Big Blow is also crude. Its startling picture is half-spoiled by a stale plot. Its genuine drama of the hurricane is tarnished by the regulation melodrama of the hack. For its effectiveness. Big Blow can thank its subject, not its playwright...
...Handle (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a brisk occupational comedy-melodrama investigating the hazards, practical and emotional, of the newsreel industry. As a guide to young men seeking a career that will combine adventure and desirable social contacts with high financial rewards, Too Hot to Handle can be dismissed as foolishly overenthusiastic. As entertainment-lavishly produced by Laurence Weingarten, compactly written by Laurence Stallings and John Lee Mahin, directed at breakneck speed by Jack Conway-it can be heartily recommended...