Word: melodrama
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Repeat Performance (Eagle-Lion) is a melodrama about an actress (Joan Leslie) who kills her drunken playwright husband (Louis Hayward) on New Year's Eve. She wishes that she could live that year over, except for its climax. When she finds her husband alive and as nasty as ever, and everyone else carrying on as if it were exactly a year ago, with no foresight of calamity, she realizes that Fate has granted her wish...
...really a cruel girl, just a lass who loves nice things. So murder and allied villainies are not easy deeds for her. Some of the best of this melodrama grows out of her pity for her guileless victims, and her shamed horror over the things a young woman may be called upon to do just to get ahead...
...Edmond O'Brien, Vincent Price and Ella Raines in a taut-spun murder melodrama (TIME, June...
...Edmond O'Brien, Vincent Price and Ella Raines in a taut-spun murder melodrama (TIME, June...
...James Mason in Carol Reed's brilliant, uneven allegorical melodrama about a fugitive killer (TIME, March...