| This melodrama, and I love melodramas, is really beautifully performed, it's heartfelt and tense and romantic. |
| And the result was a truly Hollywood ending to one of the most extraordinary political melodramas in American history. |
| By evoking scenes from old Hollywood melodramas and thrillers, the images conveyed vague feelings of tension and threat. |
| Hepworth produced on average three films a week, ranging from melodramas and slapstick comedies to scenics and travel films. |
| He wrote songs, operas, and operettas, pantomimes, melodramas, and in 1823, a History of Music. |
| Fans of Douglas Sirk melodramas and other '50s potboilers are the best candidates for this kind of slick, earnestly soapy entertainment. |
