Word: melodrama
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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...
...been on TV, Producer Worthington Miner's Studio One (CBS, Mon. 10 p.m.) has won more awards than any other dramatic program, largely because of its professional competence and grown-up storytelling. Last week, Studio One tackled Stefan Zweig's Letter from An Unknown Woman, a melodrama about a heartless Viennese composer (Melvyn Douglas) and a seamstress (Viveca Lindfors). Televiewers who expected to see the usual bang-up production, saw instead a shambles...
...portrait of such a character, Let It Come Down has the merits of clarity, intelligence and melodrama. Its great weakness is that the numbness of the sitter has got into the artist. Like Dyar, Bowles seems incapable of involving himself in at least half the realities of life. He makes his job easy by playing down characters and incidents that might fill his hero's emptiness with something more amiable than smuggling and murder. He exposes Dyar's hungry soul to every temptation except the temptation to take a brace. In this way, Bowles takes most...
Lady Possessed (Portland; Republic) resuscitates that familiar figure of movie melodrama: a living person haunted by the spirit of the dead...
...imaginary procession to an unseen ring. Moreover, they let the betrayed Don José catch up with Carmen in the tawdry hotel suite of Toreador Escamillo, instead of at the gates of the arena. Among other things, the switch permits Carmen to die with an added piece of melodrama-pulling down a huge red window drapery as she falls...