Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Benton's lurid anti-Axis paintings (TIME, April 6, 1942), Kootz declares: "[They] proved embarrassing because the imagery was from stock molds and the sentiment descended to cheap melodrama...
...melodrama with a message, Tomorrow the World provokes thought while providing thrills. And its skillful acting -particularly by radio's astonishing twelve-year-old Skippy (George Vincent) Homeier as Emil - makes it passingly plausi ble. But it is ultimately unsatisfying -too unevenly written, too sensationally worked out. With the theater's need for hurry, it makes Emil's rehabilitation seem more a race against time than a question of time...
...Colonel was to haunt Harold Ickes like the cloaked villain in a melodrama, sometimes under the Ickesian aliases of "McComic" or "Bilious Bertie, the bingy bully...
Next of Kin (Ealing-Universal) is a British War Office film originally made to teach soldiers to keep their mouths shut. It is also a successful spy thriller which broke box-office records in England. For its quality of skillful melodrama alone, it is a fascinator for soldiers and civilians alike...
Journey Into Fear (RKO-Radio) is Orson Welles's first cinema journey into the field of mystery melodrama. Welles shows himself a careful student of Alfred Hitchcock, but he falls far short of the Old Master. Journey Into Fear also falls short of the best Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Amber sons...