Word: melodrama
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...action. Although Cameraman George Barnes does his cinematic best to focus the story through his lens, his range is restricted mostly to devising new angles and lighting for the same old people in the same old room. He makes a noble attempt. The atmosphere of Retirement is all melodrama and a moor wide...
...attempt to sell a bill of indictment of small-time capitalism along with its astringent drama does not come off so well. The characters are so clearly black or white that they are too vivid for real life. But this does not keep a Southern lady's melodrama, aided and abetted by Gregg Toland's talented camera craft, from being a memorable portrait of greed. Regina and her wretched relatives possess the fascination of rattlesnakes courting in a bathtub...
...last story, "We Can Go Home Now," is by William Parker, and an admirable complement of Mr. Nemerov's little tale of psychological melodrama it is. For Mr. Parker comes out in the open with melodrama that is above-board and does not hesitate to beat its chest. This is the story of an ugly party named Bert Coonrod who shoots one of his companions on a deer hunt not quite for the sheer pleasure of shooting him. Mr. Parker could do without the sections of italicized rumination of which he seems fond, and if he were handling other material...
...short roly-poly of 42, resembling nothing so much as an amiable Alexander Woollcott on a smaller scale, he is a dutiful husband,* an ardent dog-lover, an amiable drinker, and loved by his friends. Despite Latin-American fondness for the sanguine (bullfights, the annually-produced slaughter melodrama Don Juan Tenorio, the "Day of the Dead," etc.), Cooper will not in his new job employ his weird Lights Out talent...
...choices were open to the makers of A Woman's Face. They could turn out a study of a woman outcast and her rejuvenation; or they could emphasize the play's melodrama, suspense and horror. Producer Victor Saville (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) and Director George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story) chose the latter. With a tight, smooth script they have spun a slick thriller whose box-office ending is but a slight drawback to a suspenseful 106 minutes...