Word: melodrama
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...elderly couple and two of his associates; and how at last his girl betrayed him to G-men, who shot him down as he walked out of a nickelodeon. Fortunately, this old-fashioned story is told in an old-fashioned way. The result: a tough, tight, tense, tricky little melodrama...
...Should Bother . . ." The authors of Dillinger, both 30, are lean, bespectacled Philip Yordan and ebullient, jut-chinned William Castle, whose melodrama When Strangers Marry (which Castle directed as well as coauthored) was so well liked by carriage-trade critics last fall that it is soon to be rereleased. Of these white-haired boys, the one that shines the brighter in the terms Hollywood best understands is Yordan. Reason: Yordan is already up to his ears in the jackpot...
...several crucial points this essentially psychological melodrama becomes dubious through overtheatricality, but overall it is searching and persuasive well beyond the usual attempt of films. The picture is also a very considerable cinematic tour de force, comparable with Hitchcock's Life boat and in some ways even harder...
...white opium poppies burst into bloom last week in the barren mountains of Northwest Mexico, setting the stage for melodrama. Troops rode through the hidden valleys, determined to stop the opium harvest. But the contraband harvesters, brown farmers and shepherds, bent on sharing the highest dope prices in history from over the border, eluded the soldiers...
...THUNDER - Frederic Prokosch - Harper ($2.50). Once again the author of The Conspirators silkily mixes mysticism and melodrama in an allegorical account of an underground agent's mission. In search of the spiritual dry rot besetting occupied France, the agent, Jean-Nicolas Martin, finds meaning for his own life in the love of a darkly beautiful Italian miss...