Word: melodrama
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...good thing of it. The fustily ornate interiors of the mansion, with their finely caught gloom even in bright daylight, are exciting without help from anyone. Yet Dark Waters fails because its story, its characters and its scarey ideas seldom get beyond the blueprint stage. In this kind of melodrama, which depends strongly on atmosphere and psychological overtones, absolute belief is indispensable. Sample oversight: the failure effectively to suggest the peculiarly oppressive, damp heat of the locale...
...Russians, in their lushest cloak-&-dagger manner, who added a touch of comic melodrama to the last days of the campaign. Izvestia, official Soviet Government newspaper, ran an article headlined: THE ELECTION OF ROOSEVELT GUARANTEED. It is said that the core of Dewey's Republican staff had "pro-Fascist, pro-German ties"; and that with campaign "failure imminent . . . Republicans in despair might resort to a big adventure." The "adventure," it said, might well be a fake last-minute assassination plot against Dewey, with the Communists, of course, blamed for it. Thundered Izvestia: "History includes a number of such insolent...
...plenty, may make devotees of Hemingway the sourest boycotters since Carrie Nation.* But the sea change which Producer-Director Howard Hawks supervised-for the benefit of Humphrey Bogart, Hoagy (Star Dust) Carmichael, and a sensational newcomer named Lauren Bacall (rhymes with McCall)-results in the kind of tinny romantic melodrama which millions of cinemaddicts have been waiting forever since Casablanca (TIME...
...away-in August 1902, when he was 16-with a flea-bitten stock company. They gave him his first part: a 70-year-old Methodist minister in a melodrama called Jim Bludsoe...
...astute professional revolutionist. George Heisler as presented in this cautious film is wholly nonpolitical except for his distaste for Naziism; so are his friends in the underground. With the loss of this political energy the film not only loses its truth as a tribute; it also sacrifices, even as melodrama, its vitality...