Word: melodrama
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Thse opportunities are never overplayed, however, and therein lies the virtue and the appeal of this film. It is a story of little people, faced with a big threat to their usually placid existence, and it is handled accordingly--without melodrama or bombast. There is no etching of characters and situations in black and white--each person emerges as an individual, and even the German soldier is a human being rather thn a symbol of evil...
Crossfire (American). A lucky combination (talent, front-office permission, a low budget, a rushed shooting schedule, and a subject worth feeling strongly about -anti-Semitism) produced the year's most vivid melodrama (TIME...
...Britain's Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger exported a casual, charming romantic comedy, I Know Where I'm Going. Nightmare Alley had a sardonic toughness which, to their detriment, U.S. films have almost lost. Jean Renoir made Woman on the Beach an artful blend of mood and melodrama. Delmer Daves enlarged his conspicuous promise as a writer-director with two melodramas, The Red House and The Dark Passage. Sweden's Torment was, in its first half, one of any good year's ten best...
Ride the Pink Horse. An agreeable melodrama starring Robert Montgomery, who also directs (TIME...
...worst bits of melodrama is Parnell Thomas UnAmerican business, and you just can't possibly go around telling every European that the guy is a crackpot and that most of the people don't think that way or that there are many honest liberals in America. UnAmerican investigations come over here as a story almost of terrorism, of restriction of political freedom (which it is); and people are honestly harmed. If there are 400 thousand Communists in CRS or a million in France, they're Communists because they want to be--or they've legally voted that way--and they...