Word: melos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot of the play is mostly a joke: there is a hero scene and a heroine scene and a disputed legacy and a last minute gallows rescue, but none of these things happen the way they should. The seriousness is in Shaw's own bored attitude with the melo-dramatic happenings. This comes through best in the amazing words of Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne who appears in the third act when the British are doing their best to lose the Revolution...
...Third Man. Director Carol Reed and Scripter Graham Greene play the Viennese black market for a tidy melo dramatic profit; with Joseph Gotten, Or son Welles and Valli (TIME...
Though the two young leading players act with too much emotional energy, Side Street mostly fulfills its modest melo dramatic intentions. Its climax, an auto mobile chase near the Manhattan water front and in the deserted financial district on a Sunday morning, is sharpened by exciting location shots from high overhead showing the cars darting through narrow skyscraper canyons. Sidney Boehm's straightaway script, if somewhat patly plotted, contains some authentic-sounding police talk. There are also solid minor per formances by Paul Kelly as a captain of detectives, James Craig as a thug and Jean Hagen...
...Third Man. Director Carol Reed and Scripter Graham Greene play the Viennese black market for a tidy melo dramatic profit; with Joseph Gotten, Or son Welles and Valli (TIME...