Word: melodrama
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...Radio) sets out to dramatize Catholic Author Leo Brady's prizewinning novel about a twisted youth who kills a priest. The book was largely an introspective study of the killer's complex motives and his painful redemption. On the screen, the story becomes a second-rate melodrama with a wispy religious motif...
...year ago-it is good enough to overcome that handicap. It may not be the best of its lot, but it is undoubtedly the most outspoken and pertinent. Its message flows straight out of the action, and as a piece of entertainment it is a tense, explosive melodrama...
...melodrama gets out of hand. And, like most films of its kind, the picture stacks its cards too obviously in the Negro's favor. Most of its characters are oversimplified blacks and whites. (One exception: the bitter woman, well played by Actress Darnell in a slattern's makeup, who gets over her prejudice against Negroes...
Mystery Street. Harvard joins the police in some scientific crime detection that makes for absorbing melodrama; with Ricardo Montalban (TIME...
...Third Man. Melodrama in postwar Vienna, written by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed; with Joseph Gotten, Orson Welles and Valli (TIME...