Word: melodrama
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Though less intriguing than its title, the second picture, "Sweater Girl," is an improvement on the feature. Mixing some really tense melodrama with Eddie Bracken's best, it comes through with a story that keeps the audience moderately jittery for nearly an hour. Two murders on a college campus are the basis for this murder mystery which conceals the villain's identity in the best Nick Carter style, while befuddling the audience with slapstick. Neither picture will be accused of belonging to the year's top ten, and they aren't too far from the bottom...
...intimacy of the summer theatre and the holiday spirits of the audience combine to make passable fare of such plays as "Little Women" or old fashioned melodramas. If it's melodrama, you can always laugh at the play and hiss the villain when he comes in with the mortgage. "Little Women," despite its lack of a villain and the fact that it is no carefree riot, manages to supply an ample quantity of the picturesque. The story is a childhood favorite built around a family attired in dresses lifted from Godey's Ladies' Magazine and smothered in Victorian ideals...
...than anybody else who has ever been near it. In this book he tells how he did it. In London he ran into Harry Hopkins, cracked wise with Winston Churchill, battled bugs and censors in Russia, discovered that Russians are human, went through a cowboy-and-Indian melodrama of tank warfare in the Libyan desert, ended up in London having a post-Pearl Harbor Christmas dinner with Ambassador Anthony Drexel Biddle...
This Gun For Hire (Paramount) might have been designed for the carnage trade. A razor-edged melodrama, it possesses some of the most calculated killing to come out of Hollywood since the movies discovered gangsterdom in the early...
Senate investigating committee), and foiled a plot to sell poison gas to the Japs -altogether a good day's work for Killer Ladd, and a better than middling melodrama...