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Word: vamp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defeats the movie is a poverty of invention along the way and a curious indecision as to whether to play for farce or melodrama. For a while, as a Los Angeles lady detective trying to woo secrets out of a villain (Raymond Burr), Actress Trevor deliberately burlesques a movie vamp. After that, whatever travesty the picture makes of its own plot seems purely unintentional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Mar. 27, 1950 | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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