Word: melodrama
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Deadline at Dawn. No ordinary murder mystery-a nice Odets melodrama involving Paul Lukas, Susan Hayward, Bill Williams (TIME...
...picture is directed by Tay Garnett, one of Hollywood's surest and most honest handlers of melodrama (Bataan, The Cross of Lorraine). Its chief players, Garfield and Turner, are box-office naturals. The forlornly prosperous roadside menage is an excellent set and there is, throughout, an unusual feeling for mannerism, place and atmosphere. The supporting work of Hume Cronyn and Leon Ames as lawyers is so good it. knocks a hole right through the picture...
Deadline at Dawn. No ordinary murder mystery-a nice Odets melodrama-involving Paul Lukas, Susan Hayward, Bill Williams (TIME...
...ended the big scene of Bill Hunt's Chinese melodrama. Last week, when Marty Gold, executive vice president of Hunt & Co., turned up in Shanghai with ownership of the firm in his pocket, the final curtain was on its way down...
...fact, what it doubtless always was-a piece of theater, of emotional bravura, of florid fiddling. Behind its clown's make-up there was nothing much of a face. Yet the makeup, at first glance, was by no means unstriking. For half the evening, indeed-while its melodrama seemed crouching to spring-He had a jittery tension, a rataplan rhythm, a glare of circus lights and blare of circus music, that were theatrically vivid. Then things got fuzzy and highflown, and the melodrama lost its edge, the atmosphere lost its eeriness. The minor characters became tiresome, and the main...