Word: melodrama
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...better melodrama than a sermon, Stop-Over assembles its characters by a neat device. On the night that Bartley Langthorne (Sidney Blackmer), a played-out romantic actor, returns to his small town mansion for a rest cure, Halloween pranksters plant a Tourists Accommodated sign in his front yard. Tourists pour in, but cannot pour out because the housekeeper's gangster husband (Arthur Byron) holds them prisoners with...
Norris Houghton has designed a perfect setting for melodrama, a mid-Victorian living room encrusted with gimcracks and statues, any one of which might inspire crime. But Stop-Over, after a good takeoff, gets bogged in its own dull subplots. Its chief actor, Blackmer, is left stranded with nothing to do but make wry cracks...
With "Ebb Tide" and "Double Wedding" the University currently presents a perfectly balanced program. In the former, ostensibly a Technicolored South Sea melodrama, Hollywood makes excursion into the realm of the tortured mind. The latter comprises an easy to take William Powell and Myrna Loy combination of slapstick and witty dialogue...
Crashing Hollywood (RKO Radio). Oldtimer Lee Tracy, Joan Woodbury and a group of recidivists from the RKO stock company make melodrama among the studio's sound stages. Old hokum, new style...
...WELL OF ARARAT - Emmanuel Varandyan-Donbleday, Doran ($2.50). Brooding melodrama, against a colorful pre-War Persian village background, in which an introspective boy plays a passionate part in wrecking his uncle's marriage...