Word: melodrama
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...James Mason and the city of Belfast co-star in Carol Reed's brilliant, uneven allegorical melodrama (TIME; March...
...many a month, the World Bank had dangled over a precipice like a melodrama heroine. Last week, while financiers cheered lustily, the Bank was snatched from disaster's clutches. Its rescuer was no wavy-haired glamor boy, but John Jay McCloy, 51, a bald and chunky Manhattan corporation lawyer who had done a bang-up administrative job as Assistant Secretary...
...other. The opera house serves, too, as a huge, machine-like symbol of a nation. Opera lovers will dote on the Puccini sound track, but moviegoers who have no special affection for opera are likely to find the protracted, underlighted operatic sequences dull. There is, however, some good fierce melodrama which almost anyone can enjoy...
...James Mason and the city, of Belfast co-star in Carol Reed's brilliant, uneven allegorical melodrama (TIME, March...
...House (Sol Lesser; United Artists) is a melodrama with a number of differences-most of them to the good. Its story is at once more out-of-the-ordinary and more true-to-life than most...