Word: melodrama
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Last week all London was still fighting for tickets to the U.S. musical Oklahoma! But for a simple-minded evening in the theater, the British public preferred an outrageously sentimental, swashbuckling melodrama-with-music called Perchance to Dream. It celebrated its thousandth performance by packing the Hippodrome to the rafters with sniffling, wildly applauding spectators...
Crossfire. An effective melodrama about some drunken soldiers and a murdered Jew, with a notable performance by Robert Ryan (TIME...
...rather pathetic picture because everyone concerned with it is obviously trying very hard to do something good, powerful and out of the ordinary. Occasionally, this effort brings the picture to life. There are also a few good flashes of melodrama. But on the whole, Deep Valley is reminiscent of many of the solemn little-theater plays of the early '20s: i.e., it is lost in mawkishness and pseudopoetic feeling masquerading...
...Long Night. Melodrama about a rapped killer and why he did it. Henry Fonda, Vincent Price, Barbara Bel Geddes, Ann Dvorak (TIME...
...years into the future. It is practically three books in one: like Miss Sandoz' Old Jules, a character study; like her Slogum House, a family chronicle; like her Capital City, a crankily "liberal" political tract. Small shakes as a novel, it is long on period history, melodrama, local color and wondrously rowdy soldier, sod-hut and ranch-house talk...