Word: melodrama
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...Storm Warning skillfully exploits this situation both as exciting melodrama and as a frontal assault on the KKK. Shrewd Producer Jerry Wald also manages to make the picture inoffensive, and even palatable, to most Southern moviegoers. To do so, he passes up chances to give authentic flavor to the movie's locale. Though the town is identified as Southern and looks realistically lived in, none of its citizens speaks with a Southern accent, and nothing about the appearance and customs of the town or its inhabitants sets them apart from California or the Middle West...
...factory runs along with enthusiastic efficiency. But the workers are no managers, a complicated contract turns up, and they finally have to reactivate their old boss to help them out. It takes some remarkably restrained acting to keep the plot from soaking the moviegoer with a flood of melodrama...
...readers," who deluged him with letters of thanks for the comfort they found in his eleven novels, including The Robe, The Big Fisherman. He was always frankly "more concerned with healing bruised spirits than winning the applause of critics"-who deplored his cliches, called his people puppets, his action melodrama. Novelist Douglas was even inclined to agree: "The characters are tiresomely decent, and everything turns out happily in the end ... I came into this business too late to take on any airs about...
Instead of the gloom-shrouded photography that has become standard in Hollywood melodrama, the movie wisely stresses the quiet, sunny atmosphere of a pleasant residential street...
...emerges half transcendental tragedy, half merely nautical melodrama. It would perhaps prosper best on the stage as a kind of Mystery Play, with a medieval sense of moral affirmation. It seems alien to Broadway, though it is more interesting, whatever its faults, than the great run of Broadway plays...