Word: melodrama
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...Waterfront. Elia Kazan's big-shouldered melodrama of dockside corruption; with Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb (TIME...
...same ministering-angel role as the housemaster's unhappy wife, there are decided inner correspondences with Tea and Sympathy. But where, in Tea and Sympathy, a bewildered boy was caught up violently in action, it is of inaction that he is the victim here. And deprived of melodrama, Playwright Anderson is driven into sentimentality. One of the things that Willie (engagingly played by Clay Hall) has thrust upon him is an undue aura of gallantry and affirmation. On the other hand, he has none of the imagination and humor of such another sensitive and bewildered child as the heroine...
...self-conscious Catherine Sloper in The Heiress. The dozen male actors had a fine time on Studio One's Twelve Angry Men. The play, by Reginald Rose, started out with an old idea (what happens in a jury room) but turned it into a crisp and exciting melodrama. Franchot Tone got a baleful malevolence into his part as a juryman determined on hanging the defendant, while Robert Cummings was bland and believable as the juror who changes everyone's mind. Among the others, Walter Abel, Edward Arnold, John Beal and Paul Hartman played interesting variations on the theme...
...Waterfront. Elia Kazan's big-shouldered melodrama of dockside corruption; with Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb (TIME...
...Hitchcock closet. Jamaica Inn, which bears little resemblance to the director's usual stock-in-trade, will be locked away by Saturday, however, and perhaps it is just as well. In the meantime, Charles Laughton's performance eases some of the strain created by two hours of frenzied melodrama...