Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...moment is anything but soap-operatic. The moviegoer suddenly finds himself wandering in the hero's personal hell and realizes not altogether happily that Engel's picture, most serious when it smiles is essentially a mordant reanimation of Orpheus-on Tenth Street...
...this most peripetitic of all candidates, a new opportunity has arisen. Fate--Mr. Nixon's staunchest ally--has delivered into the hands of the Republican Party four hours of Monday afternoon television time. Instead of their favorite soap operas, American housewives will be confronted with the nation's political Pepper Young, sans family...
Sunrise at Campobello. As in his stage version, Dore Schary worships rather than evaluates Franklin Roosevelt during the period when he conquers polio, setting the mold for the President-to-be. But for all this, the film offers rich, commercial entertainment, ranging from heroic drama to soap opera to political pleading...
Sunrise at Campobello. As in his stage version, Dore Schary worships rather than evaluates Franklin Roosevelt during the period when he conquers polio, setting the mold for the President-to-be. But for all this, the film offers rich, commercial entertainment, ranging from heroic drama to soap opera to political pleading...
Sunrise at Campobello (Schary Production; Warner), quite aside from its respectable merits as heroic drama, patriotic myth, situation comedy and outright soap opera, comes along as a timely piece of campaign propaganda for the Democrats...