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2/4/2021 6:48:02 AM
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RE: doctor robinson
But, again, that was how they did movies back then -- what we would consider jumbled and improbable they would have taken for exciting and dramatic. The Public Enemy with Cagney and Harlow was the worst kind of rube melodrama gangster casserole, but it was well received at the time. Dracula was a big deal, but really it was just a telephoni bianci mess only loosely based on the novel. Sometimes a movie would rise above this kind of thing while incorporating its elements. An example would be
Manhattan Melodrama
, which is generally remembered for being the movie John Dillinger saw just before getting shot, but it was a very good picture in its own right.
