Word: melodrama
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
High Treason. Spies v. Scotland Yard in a bang-up British melodrama (TIME...
...movie morality, the husband (Paul Douglas), after unsuccessfully attempting to strangle the other man (Robert Ryan), understandingly takes back his suddenly repentant wife (Barbara Stanwyck). As Barbara unconvincingly regenerated, the drama degenerates. And in Fritz Lang's turgid direction. Clash by Night emerges as a pretentious movie melodrama swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight...
Glory Alley (M-G-M). A couple of shots of Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong as a fight trainer playing a trained trumpet almost make this little New Orleans melodrama worth the trouble. Also involved in the proceedings: a cocky prizefighter (Ralph Meeker) who quits the ring because of a mental block, but then proves himself a hero in Korea; a ballet dancer (Leslie Caron) who hoofs in a honky-tonk to support her blind father (Kurt Kasznar). Pretty Leslie (An American in Paris) Caron, playing a Belgian girl in America, is on her toes in a couple of dance numbers...
High Treason. Spies v. Scotland Yard in a bang-up British melodrama (TIME...
High Treason. Spies v. Scotland Yard in a bang-up British melodrama (TIME...