Word: melodrama
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Next of Kin (Ealing-Universal) is a British War Office film originally made to teach soldiers to keep their mouths shut. It is also a successful spy thriller which broke box-office records in England. For its quality of skillful melodrama alone, it is a fascinator for soldiers and civilians alike...
Journey Into Fear (RKO-Radio) is Orson Welles's first cinema journey into the field of mystery melodrama. Welles shows himself a careful student of Alfred Hitchcock, but he falls far short of the Old Master. Journey Into Fear also falls short of the best Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Amber sons...
...interior all red and gilt. On that evening in 1893 Manhattan did not realize that its great theater district of the future was taking root. The new Empire Theater seemed a rather ambitious venture, even for Producer Charles Frohman and his famous stock company. It was baptized with a melodrama laid in an Army post, called The Girl I Left Behind Me (by David Belasco and Franklyn Fyles). When the Empire celebrated its soth birthday last week it was the oldest and most distinguished legitimate theater on Broadway, and way downtown...
This book is called by its publishers the first "mature" novel by France's most famed detective-story writer, the creator of Inspector Maigret. Hot melodrama would be a better term for it. A young, naive Frenchman, Joseph Timar, goes out to work at the Equatorial African trading post of Libreville. At the town's only hotel, he stares at the grinning masks on the walls, cranks up a phonograph with a big, old-fashioned horn, drinks his first "peg" of whiskey and feels like a young rakehell. The feeling increases when Proprietress Adèle comes...
...better one. As a French industrialist who stays in Paris to collaborate with the Nazis, he has moments in which he almost makes the picture seem important. But the film, which starts as if it were going to be a portrait of a traitor, soon becomes just another melodrama...