Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really a cruel girl, just a lass who loves nice things. So murder and allied villainies are not easy deeds for her. Some of the best of this melodrama grows out of her pity for her guileless victims, and her shamed horror over the things a young woman may be called upon to do just to get ahead...
...Edmond O'Brien, Vincent Price and Ella Raines in a taut-spun murder melodrama (TIME, June...
...James Mason in Carol Reed's brilliant, uneven allegorical melodrama about a fugitive killer (TIME, March...
...Universal -lnternational) is a tight, bright melodrama about a poor but fairly honest lawyer (Edmond O'Brien) who hires on to protect a suave capitalist (Vincent Price), and soon finds he is being had for a patsy. The young lawyer is tricked into killing the capitalist's ex-partner (Fritz Lieber) in apparent self-defense, and is even urged to keep dates with his boss's pet secretary (Ella Raines). With William Bendix of the New York Homicide Squad sniffing around, Lawyer O'Brien is in a very embarrassing fix. There is still another murder...
...come apart. A prey to confused motives, she tried to "save" the girl from Heflin when she was really trying to save him for herself. She also gradually became convinced that she had murdered Massey's wife. Even more frightening hallucinations followed. After a fierce burst of melodrama, Joan winds up on the hospital cot. The cautious prognosis: she is a schizophrene, but conceivably curable...