Word: melodrama
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...might steal Vic's new girl (again Diana Lynn). In spite of Louis and Sydney and Lucille, who are all present, and in spite of all the flashbacks, the girl finds Horace strangely fascinating and she seems willing to elope on his yacht. However, vengeful melodrama comes to bat, wickedness receives its long-deferred reward, and the world is made safe for doormats of good will like...
Mine Own Executioner. Perceptive melodrama, with Burgess Meredith as a preoccupied psychiatrist, and Kieron Moore as the patient that got away (TIME...
...original form (Patrick Hamilton's play, Rope's End) this was an intelligent and hideously exciting melodrama. It has been well adapted by Hume Cronyn, but it was probably inevitable that in turning it into a movie for mass distribution, much of the edge would be blunted. The boys in the play-who were pretty clearly derived from the Loeb-Leopold case-were highly cultivated, effeminate esthetes. So was their teacher. Much of the play's deadly excitement dwelt in this juxtaposition of callow brilliance and lavender dandyism with moral idiocy and brutal horror. Much...
Pitfall (Regal Films; United Artists) is the sort of melodrama in which an ordinary guy gets into extraordinary trouble. The guy (Dick Powell), a claims adjuster for an insurance firm, is a happy homebody with a wife (Jane Wyatt) and child (Jimmy Hunt). But duty requires Dick to investigate a Pitfall (Lizabeth Scott). He spends a fervid evening with her and even kisses her, right in front of the camera. This dalliance generates plot complications that put one man in the morgue and another in the hospital. As the picture ends, it is clear that Dick's wife...
Mine Own Executioner. Perceptive melodrama, with Burgess Meredith as a preoccupied psychiatrist, and Kieron Moore as the patient that got away (TIME...