Word: melodrama
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...first lesson in effectuality was Rienzi to the Romans, from Mary Russell Mitford's old 1828 melodrama. Charles Gibbons, 50, minority leader of the lower house, veteran of five terms, hardly got through the first line. "Friends," he began, his hands outstretched in appeal, "I come not here to talk...
...Great Man Hunt. (First released under the title, State Secret.) Chills and chuckles in a British chase-melodrama set behind the Iron Curtain; with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (TIME...
...Billy Budd" is worth seeing. But it is not a play in the full sense of the word. It is a curious hybrid of drama and moral melodrama...
...Blue Lamp (Ealing Studios; Eagle Lion Classics), a touted import, is a bland, semi-documentary melodrama in praise of the London police. The picture's excitement runs thin compared with the better Hollywood cops & robbers product, and its humor is as heavy as plum pudding, but U.S. moviegoers may be diverted by its foreign flavor...
...with its softhearted proprietor (Eddie Dowling) flutters, one day, a young girl (Joan McCracken). In full flight from a gangster husband, she has taken refuge inside a 16th Century dream world. Sometimes she dances, sometimes declaims, sometimes just dresses up like Queen Elizabeth. The gangster comes along to precipitate melodrama; other people, who have pawned their valuables, introduce humor, pathos, romance...