Word: old-hat
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...Devil Makes Three (MGM) tries to dress up a postwar plot about a new German Fuehrer with some very old-hat movie melodrama...
...ladies of easy virtue who are booted out of a California Gold Rush town as undesirables and die of cold and starvation in a snowbound mountain cabin. The picture casts out much of the pungent realism of Harte's story and adds some new characters, a dash of old-hat movie melodramatics, a romance and a happy ending...
Above club fights, cooking hints, quiz shows, double-dome discussions, and the other knickknacks of television, TV fans love vaudeville. TV has brought it all back-from trained dogs to baggy-pants comics. Some of it is as drearily old-hat as the Keith circuit in 1912. But there are glittering exceptions. The hour-long Admiral Broadway Revue (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC-TV & Du Mont) is an example of good vaudeville...
...very slow course through extremely flat country. There is endless talk, much of it in rather baffling broken English. Paul Muni's performance as the husband is studiously misconceived. Carol Stone is almost as much out of line, though more likable, as the girl. In every respect, old-hat playwriting has received a straw-hat production...
...period and the characters Trilling writes of may seem almost incredibly old-hat to some readers. But Trilling describes them authentically. He writes beautifully about children and sometimes with gently dazzling insight about their elders. Readers may take pleasure in watching him, at the top of his bent, rival E. M. Forster in the manipulation of surprise and anticlimax...