Word: melodrama
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...stage levels, The Bird Cage is all written at one. It has the arid, conscienceless professionalism of the hack; yet it fails less from being no good than from being no fun. The villain has almost every aspect of villainy except its fascination, the play every ingredient of melodrama except its punch...
...went to this movie knowing little or nothing about the trial. I came out knowing no more. Eagle-Lion Films, however, tried so very hard and with so much melodrama to convince me of the Cardinal's complete innocence, that I'm afraid I came away with the opposite impression...
...their lives if they can find some purpose in the risk, yet they are reluctant and confused when their missions seem to be accomplishing nothing. Gregory Peck's job, as the new commander, is to give the group some purpose and hope of survival. the production is good because melodrama is kept out of the relationship between the men and their leader almost entirely...
...starter, the new show offered a glossy version of Somerset Maugham's Malayan melodrama, The Letter. Madeleine Carroll, playing her first TV role, was the unfaithful wife who murders her lover. Though the show had its little flaws, mostly caused by first-night jitters, it was a production of considerable finish and skill. In a medium that could use more good actors, directors and scripts, Theater promised to be a first-rate drawing card. Already programmed are Jane Wyatt in Kitty Foyle, Elliott Nugent in The Male Animal and Producer-Narrator Montgomery himself in Ride the Pink Horse. Budgeted...
South Sea Sinner (Universal-International) is a routine, sweaty melodrama about one of those good-hearted bad girls who have been kicking around the cinematic South Seas ever since Gloria Swahson's Sadie Thompson. The plot, over-involved but lively, concentrates on showing off Shelley Winters to her best advantage in skimpy costumes of feathers, satin and sequins...