Word: melodrama
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...therefore be disappointed in this transcription of it, but The Story of Temple. Drake-although amply punctuated by shots in which the screen goes black to conceal everything except Director Stephen Roberts' prudence-is more effective than might have been expected. It is a dingy and violent melodrama, more explicit: about macabre aspects of sex than any previous products of Hollywood. Naturally enough Pop-Eye, the least lovable character in Sanctuary, docs not appear at all in The Story of Temple Drake. Temple is raped by the gangster who, in the book, was merely Pop-Eye's assistant...
...Latest pictures: Mickey's Melodrama (based on Uncle Tom's Cabin) and Ye Olden Days (based on When Knighthood was in Flower). Coming: Mail Pilot. †Last week the city fathers of Worcester, Mass, announced an even greater salute to Mickey Mouse. May 12 will be Mickey Mouse Day in Worcester. On that day a little street built in front of the Worcester City Hall will be named Mickcv Mouse Street...
Leverett House will present the well-known melodrama. "Ten Nights in a Barroom," sometime...
...dialog for The Mind-Reader, written by the late Wilson Mizner and Robert Lord, is a good example of the reportorial comedy-melodrama school, but the brash antics of Allen Jenkins are the most amusing thing about the picture. He takes money from both his employers for keeping their doings secret from each other, gives a fellow chauffeur $5 for information which Chandra can resell...
...took Harry's mind hopelessly off his work, Durham went crazy with jealousy. With a conveniently sprained ankle confining Dot to Harry's cabin they were just on the verge of a happy beginning when the forest fire broke. The end came like an old-fashioned melodrama, a bit more circumstantial but not a bit more convincing...