Word: melodrama
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Guest in the House (Hunt Stromberg-United Artists) is the psychological complement of another good Broadway-derived melodrama, Tomorrow the World (TIME, Jan. 15), in which a little boy from Hitler's Germany tries to tear an American household apart. The heroine of Guest in the House is quite unpolitical, but she is a spiritual Nazi - a power-mad, not unfamiliar feminine type for whom psychiatrists could supply accurate names...
With all this dark-of-the-moon melodrama behind them, the pair traveled confidently to Bangor, Boston and New York. They had a set of admirably forged draft cards, $60,000 in U.S. currency, and a fistful of diamonds. In Manhattan they browsed in radio shops, openly buying parts for a radio transmitter. Also they sampled the city's night life-in less than four weeks they managed to spend $3,425 of the Third Reich's funds...
Tomorrow, the World! (United Artists) is a straightforward screen version of last year's straightforward stage melodrama (TIME, April 26, 1943) about the little boy from Hitler's Germany who brings his Nazi-conditioned reflexes into a liberal-minded American household and practically destroys it before he begins to see the dawn's early light...
...fine an actor as Mr. Lukas in it, as well as intelligent writing, direction and production. A partial explanation may be the fact that everyone paid too-loving attention to the film's chief virtues, which are nice to look at but are not the substance of good melodrama. The virtues: 1) some wintry Manhattan street scenes; 2) a memorable setting and costuming of the turn of the century; 3) Hedy Lamarr...
...Hollywood producers that he could really act, let his first picture, Hudsons' Bay, in 1940 speak for him, promptly became one of the screen's most popular portrayers of psychopathic, blood-curdling bad-men (Joan of Paris, The Lodger), had just completed, before his death, a new melodrama. Hangover Square...