Word: melodrama
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...performance of such stature that the rest of the movie looks scrawny beside it. In Fail Safe and The Deadly Affair, Lumet showed a strong and substantial flair for melodrama, but nearly everything seems to go wrong for him in Child's Play, from Michael Small's sonorous and silly score to the untidy accumulation of anticlimaxes left about by the scenarist...
Roughly to this point Rage is a tight, tense suspense melodrama, rigorously and shrewdly staged by Scott, here directing his first feature film. Scott shows a sharp instinct for depicting edgy, nagging uncertainty and isolating a look or a gesture that takes on indefinably ominous implications, as when two doctors quickly clutch each other's forearms in a cabalistic grip. He also plays Dan Logan, with a kind of distance that seems to be restraint at first but comes to look very much like indifference. His performance, like the movie, becomes with each new scene grimmer, more muddled...
THURSDAY: Robert Without a Cause, James Dean created an unforgettable image for a whole generation in this 1955 teenage melodrama. Cast includes Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo and Dennis Hopper, CH, 56, 8 p.m. Color, 2 hrs, The African Queen, Bogart and Hepburn in the 1951 lady and the tramp classic. Directed by John Huston and scripted by James Agee. A joy to watch. CH. 7, 9 p.m. Color...
...with a crusty exterior covering up his sentimental inside, and Rees Morrison is the innocent young rat who's just migrated from Greenwich. Connecticut to make his way up in the big city. The two play well opposite each other moving quickly back and forth from over acted melodrama to flip humor and they've already learned how to adjust to the specific atmosphere generated by each audience...
...hard time deciding whether the play is a comedy or a tragedy (despite all the jokes, one of the rats kills the other in the end), and the actors tend to vary their technique according to the prevailing mood. At Fliot for example they began to exaggerate the melodrama when they found it provoked laughter. "I think the play is funnier than Currier House thought it was, but not as funny as they thought it was at South House," said Glenda. The cast, on the other hand, enjoyed the South House performance tremendously. "When everybody's laughing, people...