Word: melodrama
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...Forbidden Past (RKO Radio) is set in New Orleans during the gaslight era, when connoisseurs of showboat melodrama might have taken it seriously. The moss-hung script casts Ava Gardner as Barbara Beaurevel, a fiery belle scheming to win back the Yankee doctor (Robert Mitchum) who has scorned her and married another...
Nevertheless, I Was a Communist falls into a crude pattern, both as melodrama and propaganda. Its exposition of the Communist conspiracy-how the party does Moscow's work in U.S. labor unions, industrial plants, schools, minority groups -is as oversimplified, mechanical and unconvincing as the anti-capitalist preachments of left-wing Broadway plays in the '30s. For the benefit of the audience, the movie's Communists are forever reciting to each other, as if for the first time, the ABC's of party tactics. The picture represents Communists as simple gangsters, cynically out for a fast...
Storm Warning. An exciting melodrama that tromps heavily on the Ku Klux Klan without treading on sensitive Southern toes; with Ginger Rogers, Steve Cochran (TIME, March...
Harold Clurman, the director, as well as the actors, has tried his best to save the play. But such annoyances as one-time humorist Donald Ogden Stewart's injection of gagged-up lines into serious, sometimes tragic, situations and his resort to melodrama in the final act make his new play something of an annoying experience...
Storm Warning. An exciting melodrama that tromps heavily on the Ku Klux Klan without treading on sensitive Southern toes; with Ginger Rogers, Steve Cochran (TIME, March...