Word: melodrama
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...unfortunately, the unconventional theme gets only heavily conventional treatment from scriptwriter and director, who often trample the story's tender reeds with Mediterranean melodrama. Compensation for these shortcomings: 1) a long, lingering look at Pier Angeli before Hollywood discovered her-in Tomorrow, her first Italian picture, made in 1949, she plays the tragic teen-ager with a gentle glow and an innocent coquetry that makes her far more alluring than most of Hollywood's veteran vamps; 2) a look at brilliant Director Vittorio (Miracle in Milan) De Sica as an actor. De Sica, 49, an Italian matinee idol...
...picture lops off the last fourth of the novel (which piled melodrama on melodrama, with Aissa shooting Willems), and some of Conrad's tropical thunder reaches the screen only as a muted rumble. But by making much of his movie on location in Borneo and Ceylon, Director Reed has captured the rank, overwhelming atmosphere with which the story is saturated: the landscape of brown golds and brilliant emeralds, the oppressiveness of the jungle, the steaming sunshine, the murmuring river, the endless chattering and chanting of the natives...
Keep It Fresh. The backgrounds give Intrigue something of the appearance of a travelogue stuffed with melodrama. And the show gains freshness because it is lavishly peopled with European actors-usually Swedes-in the supporting roles. "Swedes learn English in grade school and speak it very well," explains Reynolds. "Their accent is so slight that I can make them be Russians or Frenchmen or whatever I want...
Detective Story. Playwright Sidney Kingsley's account of a day in a Manhattan detective squad room still swirls with melodrama under William Wyler's direction (TIME...
Detective Story. Playwright Sidney Kingsley's account of a day in a Manhattan detective squad room still swirls with melodrama under William Wyler's direction (TIME...