Word: melodrama
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Most improved by this year of study is Jose Ferrer, whose portrayal of Iago is magnificent. Faced with the enormous acting problem of being "honest" and a villain at the same time, Ferrer plays a dynamic Iago without letting the part fall into the pitfall of melodrama...
...case "... a bizarre plot. ... It will sound like storybook reading, it is so fantastic." Until the four are put on trial in mid-September, the Government is jealously guarding all details of its superduper spy story. But FBI introduced a cast of characters to jar the most jaded melodrama addict. Charged with collecting information on U.S. war plans and plants: > "Countess" Grace (pronounced "Grawse," she says) Buchanan-Dineen, 34, Canadian-born, who traveled widely in Europe and somehow picked up a hyphenated name and title. FBI claims that she also picked up considerable spy-schooling in Budapest...
...movie is a slow-going, vulgarly conceived, poorly executed melodrama about love in the tropics with all the usual background of palm trees, native uprisings, buried treasure, virile torsos, and dishonest fellows. In the end of course Love and Honesty are triumphantly rampant on a field of Carribbean blue. The only good thing about the picture is the technicolor...
...Little Chillun (by Hall Johnson; produced by Lew Cooper, Meyer Davis and George Jessel) played for a while on Broadway in 1933, has since then had healthy revivals elsewhere. A Negro melodrama of sex and religion (which are made 0 seem much the same thing), its story is inept, long-winded. What has obviously fetched audiences, even if it has not sufficiently rewarded them, is the well-blended Hall Johnson Choir's singing of well-known spirituals and Hall Johnson's own music...
...quest of a secret which Great Britain needs to know they get involved in disguises, a Liszt-accompanied murder, battles with the Gestapo. They also run afoul of such suspicious figures as Basil Rathbone and Conrad Veidt. Strangely enough, it all adds up to a better-than-average summertime melodrama...