Word: melodrama
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...tried & true ingredients for large-scale musical melodrama, High, Wide and Handsome omits none, from folk dancing to the scene in which Sally, temporarily estranged from her husband, sings in a tent show. Produced by Arthur Hornblow in the magniloquent tradition of screen plays like Showboat and San Francisco, directed with broad strokes by Rouben Mamoulian, it is shrewd, symphonic, sentimental mass entertainment, which should satisfy most cinemaddicts, surprise almost none. Good shot: a carnival strong man tossing Red Scanlon into a creek. The Toast of New York (RKO) exhibits Edward Arnold, previously seen as Diamond Jim Brady, General John...
NIGHT BETWEEN THE RIVERS-R. L. Duffus-Macmillan ($2.50). What a one- night New York City general strike did to the cocktail party of a beautiful interior decorator; dubious political prophecy but pleasant enough melodrama about New York intellectuals...
King Solomon's Mines (Gaumont-British) is good-old-fashioned adventure adapted from H. Rider Haggard's 50-year-old melodrama. In quest of legendary diamonds encased in Africa's jagged Drakensberg Mountains go doughty Allan Quartermain (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), Kathy O'Brien (Anna Lee), Captain Good (Roland Young), Sir Henry Curtis (John Loder) and Umbopa (Paul Robeson), a burly, black Zulu. On the desert trek the reckless fL'e almost perish from thirst. In the mountains they are tolerated by Kukuana savages only because the superstitious blacks believe bemonocled Captain Good...
Dark Journey (United Artists). War-time submarine melodrama with Vivien Leigh and Conrad Veidt as rival spies...
White Bondage (Warner). Gordon Oliver and Jean Muir in a Southern sharecropper melodrama, complete with bloodhounds and lynch...