Word: melodrama
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...Universal -lnternational) is a tight, bright melodrama about a poor but fairly honest lawyer (Edmond O'Brien) who hires on to protect a suave capitalist (Vincent Price), and soon finds he is being had for a patsy. The young lawyer is tricked into killing the capitalist's ex-partner (Fritz Lieber) in apparent self-defense, and is even urged to keep dates with his boss's pet secretary (Ella Raines). With William Bendix of the New York Homicide Squad sniffing around, Lawyer O'Brien is in a very embarrassing fix. There is still another murder...
...come apart. A prey to confused motives, she tried to "save" the girl from Heflin when she was really trying to save him for herself. She also gradually became convinced that she had murdered Massey's wife. Even more frightening hallucinations followed. After a fierce burst of melodrama, Joan winds up on the hospital cot. The cautious prognosis: she is a schizophrene, but conceivably curable...
Torment. A well-told Swedish melodrama about a schoolboy, a girl and a psychoneurotic teacher (TIME, April...
...James Mason and the city of Belfast co-star in Carol Reed's brilliant, uneven allegorical melodrama about a fugitive killer and the people he meets (TIME, March...
...James Mason in Carol Reed's brilliant, uneven allegorical melodrama about a fugitive killer and the people he meets (TIME, March...