Word: melodrama
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Anna (Lux Film; I.F.E.) is an Italian-made melodrama that bears a striking resemblance to a slick U.S. thriller. An alluring nightclub singer (Silvana Mangano) is torn between true love for an honest farmer (Raf Vallone) and sordid passion for a shady bartender (Vittorio Gassman). When Vallone kills Gassman in a hand-to-hand encounter, Silvana renounces the world and becomes a lay sister at a hospital. At this point, just when it appears that the movie is running out of plot, Vallone is seriously injured in an automobile accident and is wheeled into Silvana's hospital...
With this English-made historical melodrama, the Brattle presents two French shorts. The first, called Zanzabelle, is the work of an old French puppeteer, who has a remarkable ability to place human faces on his dolls and an equally wonderful talent for amusing situation. The other short, Images Medievales, reproduces fifteenth century French manuscript illumination in striking color. The sketches are interesting, and the dubbed-in English sound track is unintentionally hilarious...
...attacks-during which the chief gets killed, the major gets his comeuppance and the lieutenant gets the girl-a peaceful settlement of the Seminole problem appears imminent. Set in the Everglades country, Seminole has several rousing action scenes, but most of the time it is bogged down in swampy melodrama...
Monsoon (The Film Group; United Artists) is a parched little melodrama set in a torrential downpour. An about-to-be-married couple (Diana Douglas and George Nadar) arrive at the village of Ginjim in southern India to visit the girl's family. In Ginjim, the barometer is low and human passions are high. The family's younger daughter (Ursula Thiess), a child of nature who runs around in scanty outfits, takes the eye of her sister's fiancé. Before long they are cuddling in an abandoned temple, exchanging such lines as: "I will love you with...
Niagara (20th Century-Fox) is a thin trickle of melodrama with a Niagara Falls setting. The picture casts Marilyn Mon roe as a curvaceous tramp who plots to murder her husband (Joseph Gotten...