Word: melodrama
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Without Warning (by Ralph Spencer Zink; A. L. Jones, producer) is a mystery melodrama which takes place in an experimental hangar of a U. S. arsenal on an unnamed island off the Atlantic coast. It opens with a crucifixion, ends with a shooting. In the highly exciting interim a tough colonel from the Judge Advocate General's Department (Jack Roseleigh), who arrives by Coast Guard plane in dress blues fresh from a Washington dinner party to solve the first killing, beats the daylights out of the wrong man just because he has it coming to him and, before...
...white brick courthouse, Roosevelt Townes and Bootjack McDaniels, 26-year-old Negroes, were pleading not guilty to a charge of murdering a crossroads country grocer during a robbery last December at nearby Duck Hill. One day last week these simultaneous events were the prolog of a bloody melodrama, peculiarly Southern...
...films at the Paramount and Fenway this week, "Outcast" and "Her Husband's Secretary", have one thing in common: they both start out as mild enough little dramas and end with hair-raising melodrama...
This complicated but well-related episode is the beginning of a kind of melodrama which the cinema can tell superbly, and which it recently has been neglecting. No effort is made to tone down characters and incidents to the neat artistic patterns of the current vogue...
Joseph Conrad has been mangled by many U. S. and British cinemen who customarily utilize the melodrama to the exclusion of the nobility in his novels...