Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With all this dark-of-the-moon melodrama behind them, the pair traveled confidently to Bangor, Boston and New York. They had a set of admirably forged draft cards, $60,000 in U.S. currency, and a fistful of diamonds. In Manhattan they browsed in radio shops, openly buying parts for a radio transmitter. Also they sampled the city's night life-in less than four weeks they managed to spend $3,425 of the Third Reich's funds...
...fine an actor as Mr. Lukas in it, as well as intelligent writing, direction and production. A partial explanation may be the fact that everyone paid too-loving attention to the film's chief virtues, which are nice to look at but are not the substance of good melodrama. The virtues: 1) some wintry Manhattan street scenes; 2) a memorable setting and costuming of the turn of the century; 3) Hedy Lamarr...
...Hollywood producers that he could really act, let his first picture, Hudsons' Bay, in 1940 speak for him, promptly became one of the screen's most popular portrayers of psychopathic, blood-curdling bad-men (Joan of Paris, The Lodger), had just completed, before his death, a new melodrama. Hangover Square...
...good thing of it. The fustily ornate interiors of the mansion, with their finely caught gloom even in bright daylight, are exciting without help from anyone. Yet Dark Waters fails because its story, its characters and its scarey ideas seldom get beyond the blueprint stage. In this kind of melodrama, which depends strongly on atmosphere and psychological overtones, absolute belief is indispensable. Sample oversight: the failure effectively to suggest the peculiarly oppressive, damp heat of the locale...
...Russians, in their lushest cloak-&-dagger manner, who added a touch of comic melodrama to the last days of the campaign. Izvestia, official Soviet Government newspaper, ran an article headlined: THE ELECTION OF ROOSEVELT GUARANTEED. It is said that the core of Dewey's Republican staff had "pro-Fascist, pro-German ties"; and that with campaign "failure imminent . . . Republicans in despair might resort to a big adventure." The "adventure," it said, might well be a fake last-minute assassination plot against Dewey, with the Communists, of course, blamed for it. Thundered Izvestia: "History includes a number of such insolent...