Word: melodrama
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...Blue Dahlia. Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in Raymond Chandler's tight-as-a-drumhead melodrama (TIME...
There is novelty and considerable suspense in the opening scenes of this hasty production. Then the plot drops Ladd and Fitzgerald into Nazi-held France, but leaves all novelty behind. Most of the incidents based on real O.S.S. experiences turn out to be the old, threadbare ingredients of wartime melodrama: contacting the French underground, short-waving vital messages to London, dynamiting a railway tunnel, throwing the beautiful female operator to the Gestapo wolf...
...Blue Dahlia. Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in Raymond Chandler's melodrama, tight as a drumhead (TIME...
...script. It is when Rostand tries to be another Shakespeare or Racine that the play loses its dash. The death of Christian, the puppet lover, and the end of Cyrano himself in a nunnery are on the edge of ennui. Written at a time when audiences liked their melodrama lush and their tears wet, these heroics leave the modern theatre-goer cold...
...Blue Dahlia. Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in Raymond Chandler's melodrama, tight as a drumhead (TIME...