Word: melodrama
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...GRADUATE. Mike Nichols' second screen effort begins as genuine comedy, but soon degenerates into spurious melodrama, although Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft do an excellent job as victims of a sophomoric love triangle...
...Clements are currently appearing in Heartbreak House. Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde are also being trotted out regularly; last week The Importance of Being Earnest opened with Dame Flora Robson, and Hay Fever opens this week. Producers have even harked back to such antiques as The Bells, a Victorian melodrama in which Sir Henry Irving made his reputation, and John Galsworthy's hoary Edwardian relic, Justice, a preachy treatise on crime and punishment...
...rather than taken out. Director Mark Rydell has seen fit to heat his movie up with three gratuitous physical set-tos-girl and man in hunting cabin, girl and girl in bed, girl and herself in bathroom. The result is slick, sick psychological melodrama...
...could mistake the murderers, young Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, for Bonnie and Clyde; as rendered by Author Williams, they are closer to Jekyll and Hyde, complete with Victorian-melodrama makeup. Ian, 25, is the main figure, but wind him as he will, Williams cannot bring his manic mannequin to life...
...Angel Street alias Gaslight were not the stuff of legend, it might be the stuff of successful Loeb shows; but workmanlike and entertaining as George Hamlin's production is, it reveals little in Patrick Hamilton's 30-year-old melodrama besides the all-too-familiar story. Conceivably aware of this, director Hamlin has inserted into the prgoram a defense of the play on historical grounds, claiming that Angel Street made melodrama "respectable" through substitution of psychological motive for coincidental fate. Suspend all criticism of Hamilton's Freudian prowess, and the defense triumphs. But there is a further pitfall, an arguable...