To rectify the situation of turning the term 'melodrama' into an abstract category that can be used to describe almost any literary mode, the essays here...
Douglas Sirk directs this lesser-known 1950s melodrama starring Fred MacMurray as Clifford Groves, a successful businessman who feels taken for granted...
PublishedLondon: BFI Video Publishing, 1956 (2007)
This combination of searing melodrama and subversive social critique is one of the key American films of the 1950s, a high point in the careers of lead...