Word: melodrama
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...Melodrama in Agassiz...
...Kenmore management would have you believe a New York critic called it--"The best Italian film to reach this country." It can not stand up to "Open City" or "To Live in Peace," for example, as consistently successful cinema art. Still, there are some very fine moments of melodrama in "Tragic Hunt," that rate it well with the earlier films and make its director and co-author, Giuseppe De Santis, a promising new figure in his field...
...unusual to mean anything. He is surely one of very few heroes in history-even Hollywood history-who have been forced to choose between a prison sentence and $3,744,000. The whole evening, moreover, is an artistic blur-half morality play about saving Castle's soul, half melodrama about saving his skin...
Both too lurid and too grandiose, The Big Knife writes of lost idealists, in whom there was always something of the ham or the hack, as though they were fallen archangels. It stirs little real sympathy for them. Designed as scathing tragedy, it emerges as botched melodrama which often suggests an ugly farce...
This indigestible lump of melodrama is leavened now & again by a stretch of slapstick which is equally unreal. The only real moments, in fact, are provided by Gloria Grahame, who proves once again, as she did by her performance as the sullen taxi dancer in Crossfire, that she can be one of Hollywood's most convincing chippies...