Word: melodrama
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...Barnum and Cecil B. de Mille. It is not just a movie about the circus; it is a fat Technicolored reproduction of the 1951 Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus itself, fondly filmed from all angles by Producer-Director de Mille, and generously overlaid with a three-ringed melodrama enacted by movie stars in the roles of sawdust demigods...
Decision Before Dawn. A semi-documentary spy melodrama on a grand scale, picturing the physical and spiritual chaos of Germany on the eve of defeat in World War II (TIME...
After the opening scene, a firing squad execution, an unseen narrator announces that Decision Before Dawn will explain why a spy risks his life to betray his own country. The picture never quite does this, but in trying, Twentieth Century Fox has produced a semi-documentary melodrama that can be best described in superlatives...
...Chekhov's first full length drama, and the author himself realized that it was filled with weaknesses. The play has seldom been performed in Europe, and the Brattle Company showed courage to give Ivanov its American premier. As a play Ivanov is poorly constructed. Some of the scenes approach melodrama; many of the lines are weak; and Chekhov had not yet mastered the subtleties of characterization that heightened the realism of his later works...
Decision Before Dawn. A semidocumentary spy melodrama on a grand scale, picturing the physical and spiritual chaos of Germany on the eve of defeat in World War II (TIME...