Word: melodrama
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When an unknown director turns out a suspense melodrama as dreary and unconvincing as this, moviegoers revel in the thought of what it might have been if Hitchcock had done it. It is disconcerting to come away from Mamie feeling precisely the same...
Will the weight of envious mediocrities and malevolent mischance bring Stamper down, or will he be able to float his log booms down the river in time to meet his contract? The question sounds like rank melodrama, but it is not; Author Kesey's novel is big and clumsy, but its questions matter very much...
...title role and surrounding parts of such delicate adjustment and balance as I can only barely conceive. I have never seen or read of such a production (Olivier's did not come close). No--why not admit it?--Richard III, like Titus Andronicus, is not a tragedy but a melodrama. For the Elizabethans it fulfilled the function that "horror movies" do in our culture...
Laying aside pretensions to tragedy, the American Shakespeare Festival is now offering a Richard III of strong impact. The resulting bloodthirsty and at times stomach-turning melodrama, under Allen Fletcher's direction, provides one of the most intriguing shows in the Festival's history...
...bent on tragedy and will accept first-rate blood-and-guts melodrama, this Richard...