Word: melodrama
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...leans heavily on the "rapture" of Roman ruins in the moonlight and pays little attention to its main theme--the romance and disillusionment of a young girl and a sculptor. Nearly every emotional sequence in the film is hackneyed and bears the imperfections of what it plagarized from American melodrama...
...Lonely Place (Columbia) is a Humphrey Bogart melodrama that seems to take forever getting to the point and just about as long driving it home. While marking time, it offers some trite glimpses of life in Hollywood after hours and the over-familiar love story of a hero-heel (Bogart) and a good-bad girl (Gloria Grahame...
...inhabitants furnishes most of the drama of the movie. The combination of rolling, verdant landscapes and simple country people invokes those hazy, romantic adjectives, "delightful" and "charming." "The Woman of Dolwyn" is genuinely moving as well, although the film is occasionally marred when it leaves character study for melodrama...
...runways at Czechoslovakia's Bratislava, Brno and Moravska Ostrava, the morning planes for Prague roared off as usual one day last week. Aloft in the three state-owned airliners (DC-3s) were 85 passengers and crewmen. With them flew melodrama...
What defeats the movie is a poverty of invention along the way and a curious indecision as to whether to play for farce or melodrama. For a while, as a Los Angeles lady detective trying to woo secrets out of a villain (Raymond Burr), Actress Trevor deliberately burlesques a movie vamp. After that, whatever travesty the picture makes of its own plot seems purely unintentional...