177 Sentences With "potboiler" | Random Sentence Generator

Warning: It makes "War With the Newts" read like a conventional potboiler.

Scenes like that elevate Crimson Tide above being a Clancy-esque military potboiler.

Clarke Peters plays the foreman for a viaduct project that promises prosperity in this eight-part potboiler.

Bruce Willis and Michael Chiklis star in this crime potboiler about a robbery gone wrong in Cincinnati.

Saturday A crimson curtain rose and "Manon," a potboiler starring the bright-voiced soprano Lisette Oropesa, got underway.

Fincher took a potboiler and elevated into high art; Taylor takes one and squishes it into a Lifetime movie.

The book is an essential historical source (which Herman Melville used when writing "Moby-Dick") masquerading as a melodramatic potboiler.

It's not a slow burn but a potboiler, and it sometimes lurches into "24"-esque absurdity and James Bond sudsiness.

More than a mere monster potboiler, it bristles with thematic preoccupations of paranoia and features Mr. Moriarty's eccentric piano stylings.

This sounds like the plot of a Hollywood thriller or a paperback potboiler in which the world is heading for conflagration.

Was The Godfather, based on a disreputable potboiler and plagued with production problems, on anyone's radar when it first hit theaters?

This fin-de-siècle potboiler shows up at the Met every decade or so, usually at the behest of a reigning diva.

It's a fairy tale and an opera, a potboiler and a news bulletin, a howl of protest and an anthem of resistance.

Because I like Hardy as much as I do, I was more than willing to watch him hang out in a 19th century potboiler.

It was part family drama, part lurid potboiler and part complex psychological study — topped off with secret-parentage twists and an encroaching zombie army.

But even in its expurgated form, this is an expert potboiler, and its oft-imitated house-of-mirrors climax is as gripping as ever.

But although Liar starts in that space, it quickly turns into more of a potboiler, with long-buried secrets and desperate attempts to prove wrongdoing.

And while Mr. Akhtar may have rejected many of the outer trappings of the Wall Street potboiler, he still hews to many of its clichés.

The direction, by Robin Witt, sometimes emphasizes the qualities in Maugham that soon made this kind of melodramatic potboiler the stuff of Monty Pythonesque satire.

Hill's novel is a fairly straightforward (and straight-faced) reimagining of the classic Gothic potboiler, told in wintry retrospect by a now middle-aged narrator.

And pivoting from the intimacy of Creed to a generation-spanning family epic straight out of a potboiler novel is just a weird call all around.

The movie is a Hitchcockian potboiler, a Weinstein production directed by Anthony Minghella, adapted from Patricia Highsmith's novel and set in the poshest parts of Italy.

In "Burning Down the House," Ms. Mendelsohn scoops up and embraces every available potboiler cliché and lurid plot development — including incest, rape, arson, murder and human trafficking.

The Metropolitan Opera swept in 23 with a true gala performance: this Cilea potboiler, in a straightforwardly sumptuous David McVicar production conducted by a spirited Gianandrea Noseda.

CORINNA da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM This Orientalist potboiler may be known chiefly for the sweeping tenor aria "Nessun dorma," but this season its leading ladies are the draws.

Others have given me a gentle yoga session, a shell from Sanibel Island, a potboiler, an outrageous wig, a microwaveable hot pad, and (unexpectedly effective) battery-operated socks.

A truer comparison would be to the Showtime potboiler "The Affair": the reliance on fraught flashbacks and the feeling of being underwater, in a constant state of unease.

I thought there would be a story there, but they were trying to make a commercial potboiler, which is what most people do with a gangster film in India.

It's not the most obvious historical parallel, but in Mr. Moralioglu's hands turned into a fully realized multiperiod potboiler with surprising resonance (plus a "Pirates of the Caribbean" overlay).

It's a potboiler of Cheryl Blossom (Madelaine Petsch)-Toni Topaz (Vanessa Morgan) angst, cult-provided magic mushrooms, ghosts of murdered performers of yore, and Chad Michael Murray freaking everyone out.

The resulting potboiler about a miserable twentysomething caught up in a thrilling mystery with a tall redhead was nominated for the Man Booker Prize, so I suppose her scheme worked.

The writer-director S. Craig Zahler has embellished "Dragged Across Concrete" — a neo-exploitation potboiler about brutal men on both sides of the law — in both modest and grandiose ways.

Although two uses of the Blind Boys of Alabama's version of "Way Down in the Hole" may conjure memories of the "The Wire," this largely diverting potboiler isn't interested in sociological scope.

Perhaps the Met carefully planned this deep dive into verismo, that blood-and-guts, heart-on-sleeve, homicidally inclined genre of Italian potboiler that flourished around the turn of the 20th century.

Jenna Bans, the show's creator, is a longtime writer and producer on several Shonda Rhimes shows and has also created "The Family," a domestic potboiler, and "Off the Map," a sultry medical drama.

No doubt, I may be predicting the outcome of this political potboiler prematurely, but as we have learned through observing Donald Trump's business career, it's always best to sell first and ask questions later.

Homeland, like many other series set in the world of Washington and its environs, has found itself racing to catch up to a reality that increasingly feels like an incredibly bizarre potboiler of a novel.

A potboiler of a thriller, Homecoming, adapted for TV by Mr. Robot showrunner Sam Esmail, borrows a page out of her Oscar-winning role, similarly depending on Roberts's offscreen persona to build out its plot.

The barn-burning mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili (Amneris) also takes on Dalila later in the season and stars again opposite Ms. Netrebko in a new production of Cilea's potboiler "Adriana Lecouvreur" on New Year's Eve.

Blazblue's visual novel stories are kind of unbearable, but that kind of story absolutely makes for the best wiki to read; it's utterly captivating and looping, each entry just raises further questions, like a nonlinear potboiler.

He has explored the American racial divide through a dizzying range of variations on classic, creaky forms: minstrel show ("Neighbors"); 19th-century melodrama ("An Octoroon"); and even the Southern gothic potboiler, replete with closeted skeletons ("Appropriate").

The trailer for this movie looks like a cross between a Liam Neeson potboiler and a 1950s film noir in which McConaughey plays a sucker who murders the new husband (Jason Clarke) of his ex-wife (Hathaway).

Making this potboiler even more dramatic is that the other recent aim of the Freedom Caucus, impeding and discrediting the investigation into misconduct by members of Trump's 2016 campaign apparatus, is heating up at the same time.

Inspired by "Madama Butterfly," Puccini's beloved opera from 1904 — which was based on a 1900 play, taken from an 1898 short story — "Miss Saigon" is as mechanically melodramatic as any theatrical potboiler from the early 20th century.

She keeps the suspense at such a low simmer — as if Anita Brookner had decided to try her hand at a potboiler — that you might be forgiven for wondering if, at times, the flame has gone out altogether.

Without frills or fuss, he shaped a riveting family drama, a plausible potboiler worthy of Arthur Miller, with a cast including a world-wearily granitic Eric Owens, as Wotan, and Christopher Purves, eloquently and chillingly human as Alberich.

Whatever surface advantage "Big Little Lies" may have in sophistication and seriousness over "Desperate Housewives," it could have learned a few lessons from that long-running ABC potboiler in how to tell a story and keep an audience entertained.

Audiences at theaters other than the dozen or so featuring 120fps projection will have a slightly easier time sifting for the story buried in here somewhere, a thin science-fiction-inflected potboiler pitting an assassin against his own genetic duplicate.

Some critics said that the books, with potboiler plots, characters in conflict and plenty of violence, elevated the sermonizing of old-fashioned Christian fiction into the realms of modern page-turning thrillers by John Grisham, Tom Clancy or Stephen King.

"A Woman of No Importance" is a strange hybrid of drawing-room persiflage and he-done-her-wrong potboiler, while "The Lady From the Sea" seems to straddle two genres, mystical fable and social realism, that Ibsen usually kept apart.

Directed by Brian A. Miller from a script by Kevin Mao and Jeff Jingle, "10 Minutes Gone," a crime potboiler whose central virtue is its briskness, stars Michael Chiklis as Frank, a crook managing a heist that of course goes wrong.

I'm talking about James Levine and Plácido Domingo, the battle-scarred titans of opera who joined forces on Monday, their 329th performance together since their Met partnership began, for Verdi's "Nabucco," a biblical potboiler of religious wars and forbidden love.

In 2017 her most-heralded work was on television, in the Northern California HBO potboiler "Big Little Lies," where she played a supercapable professional turned stay-at-home mom and steadfast friend who was also the victim of violent domestic abuse.

The latest entry in Alex Grecian's lurid series of Victorian melodramas expands on the author's obsessive interest in Jack the Ripper with another potboiler in which Saucy Jack is alive and well and still tormenting Inspector Walter Day of Scotland Yard's elite new Murder Squad.

The latest example of his infernal abilities is "Bodyguard," a six-episode BBC potboiler whose finale was, according to different measurements, the highest-rated British drama since either the "Downton Abbey" Season 2 finale in 2011 or a "Doctor Who" Christmas special in 2008.

Indeed, this 230 Tim Burton movie is probably the best Sondheim adaptation so far, turning the composer's great potboiler of a show, about a barber who cuts a murderous swath through 250s London in the name of revenge, into a lean and mean film.

CreditCreditVincent Tullo for The New York Times Late in the third act of "Adriana Lecouvreur," Francesco Cilea's irresistible potboiler of an opera, the vicious Princesse de Bouillon and Adriana, an actress, square off at a party, rivals for the love of the dashing Maurizio.

Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane of Pennsylvania said on Tuesday that she will not seek re-election this fall, the latest twist in a political potboiler that has shamed a succession of state officials, destroyed several careers and left Ms. Kane facing felony charges and impeachment.

Yes, there's another prison to break out of, but this one appears to be in Turkey; the premise is a riff on the classic prison drama Midnight Express, although Midnight Express was a serious film, not the kind of pulpy potboiler that Prison Break was at its best.

"A potential treat emerged as a wet firecracker in some sixty-eight neighborhood theaters yesterday where United Artists unveiled its singularly unorthodox 'Beat the Devil,'" the Times review said, comparing the movie unfavorably to its source, a potboiler of a novel pseudonymously written by the left-wing journalist Claud Cockburn.

WASHINGTON — As President-elect Donald J. Trump continues his search for a secretary of state — a conspicuously public effort, in which the fortunes of the candidates rise and fall like characters in a political potboiler — allies of one of those candidates, David H. Petraeus, are mounting a vigorous lobbying campaign on his behalf.

Thanks to Susann's exhaustive publicity campaign and the ubiquitous word-of-mouth talk on her salacious potboiler, Susann became a household name pretty much overnight; by her death at the age of 53 in 1974, the book had made The Guinness Book of World Records for being, at the time, the best-selling novel ever.

Brash and witty, Mr. Kaminsky developed his reputation at Warner with best sellers like "Never-Say-Diet" (1980), by Richard Simmons; "Megatrends" (1982), by John Naisbitt; sequels to "The Happy Hooker," by the former madam Xaviera Hollander; potboiler fiction by Andrew Greeley, a Roman Catholic priest; the paperback edition of Judith Krantz's "Scruples"; and novels by Nelson DeMille.

The crime had all the ghoulish ingredients of a potboiler: the sudden disappearance of a wealthy landowner and Harvard graduate, George Parkman (pictured); another Harvard man—John Webster, a professor of chemistry and mineralogy—as prime suspect; a dismembered body presumed to be the victim's; a sullen janitor who supplied the anatomy laboratory with cadavers; and a trial reported in screaming headlines.

Put the plate in the sink and get back to reading this new potboiler thriller or that old, difficult novel, not go outside at all, much less shop for a week of cooking well and elegantly, in keeping with the aesthetics of my day job and the promise that doing so will make me and all those around me happier.

Despite a potboiler setup, the Israeli director Avi Nesher's film "Past Life," inspired by Baruch Milch's memoir "Can Heaven Be Void?" and by the lives of Mr. Milch's daughters, is both more and less than a simple mystery about one man's actions during World War II. The movie begins in West Berlin in 1977, where Sephi (Joy Rieger), an Israeli singer and aspiring composer, performs as a soloist in a choral concert.

A female juvenile court judge learns that her own daughter is one of the town delinquents in this minor low-budget potboiler.

Watch it for its robust potboiler personality. With extra masala as garnish. Ajay Devgan pulls out all stops for this one. He is fierce and impactful.

"Poojai Review – Tamil Movie Reviews – IndiaGlitz.com". IndiaGlitz. Cinemalead rated 2.25 out of 5 and wrote,"Customary commercial potboiler!" Poojai Movie Review. Cinemalead.com. Retrieved on 25 February 2016.

The book received good reviews abroad.Frank Slaughter, 'Flying Doctor: BACK OF SUNSET. By Jon Cleary.' New York Times 28 June 1959: BR22 The Canberra Times called it a "potboiler".

However a later review of the author's career dismissed it as a "potboiler". It was serialised for radio. The book was re-released in 1963 as part of Angus and Robertson's Pacific Book series.

" AllMovie GUide, 2011. Retrieved: March 20, 2011. Critic Leonard Maltin described it as a "tiresome potboiler with Marine Air Corps rivalry between Cagney and O'Brien. Their personalities and good stunt- flying scenes are the only saving grace.

He told Lillah McCarthy, who played the lead role, to "do everything to suggest the play is by Barrie".Barbara M. Fisher, "Fanny's First Play: A Critical Potboiler?", Shaw, Vol. 7, Shaw: The Neglected Plays, 1987, pp. 187-205.

In 1991, Video Watchdog called the film a "blasé potboiler" and derided the main character's nightclub act as "consist[ing] of only one boring "I'm-Down-And-Out-But-I'm-Fightin'-Back" number - delivered à la Minnelli in Dietrich duds".

Lewis's first published book was Hike and the Aeroplane, a Tom Swift-style potboiler that appeared in 1912 under the pseudonym Tom Graham. Sinclair Lewis's first serious novel, Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man, appeared in 1914, followed by The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life (1915) and The Job (1917). That same year also saw the publication of another potboiler, The Innocents: A Story for Lovers, an expanded version of a serial story that had originally appeared in Woman's Home Companion. Free Air, another refurbished serial story, was published in 1919.

The Bodyguard received negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes it has a 33% rating from 46 reviews with the consensus, "The Bodyguard is a cheesy, melodramatic potboiler with occasional moments of electricity from Whitney Houston."The Bodyguard Movie Reviews. Rotten Tomatoes.

Balzac presented himself as a legitimist candidate for Parliament.Robb, p. 192. Honoré de Balzac was drawn to a diversity of interests throughout his life, from business to politics. After studying the law for three years, he wrote a number of potboiler novels under various pseudonyms.

92-96 Balzac had previously only published potboiler novels under a variety of pseudonyms, books designed to excite readers and sell copies.Robb, pp. 85–93. He had also engaged in a series of ill-fated speculative investments, which left him in considerable debt.Robb, pp. 130–138.

An innocent chap is engulfed in the nexus. The cop has to liberate the innocent and convict the guilty. Doesn't this sound like a standard scheme of an 80s potboiler? But what makes Rohan Sippy's film entertaining is its smart storytelling, sincere setting and slick treatment.

"Barry Miles. Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now "It was one of the first times he ever went 'What? Must change that ...'" Lennon said: "That's Paul doing his usual good job of producing what George Martin used to call a 'potboiler'. I helped with a couple of the lyrics.

"Greenspun, Roger (August 30, 1973). "Film: 'The Stone Killer". The New York Times. 26. Arthur D. Murphy of Variety called the film "a confused, meandering crime potboiler", explaining, "The story and direction reach for so many bases that the end result is a lot of cinema razzle-dazzle without substance.

Nearing 50, Cook eased himself back into literature with a potboiler that was published only in a French translation. He returned to London, married his fourth wife, Fiona, then divorced again. He worked as a minicab- driver on the night shift. He was collecting the material for the first of his "black novels".

Robb, pp. 27–53. His first efforts, published under a variety of pseudonyms, were cheaply printed potboiler novels. In 1829 he finally released a novel under his own name, titled Les Chouans; it was a minor success, though it did not earn the author enough money to relieve his considerable debt.Robb, pp. 145–174.

In 2008, Thompson announced that she and Wise "had written a script together about John Ruskin, the Victorian art critic, which we want to make into a film." After meeting with Thompson and her producers, Potboiler Productions, Murphy was offered a screenwriting fee and co-screenwriting credit with Thompson in settlement of his claim.

Now and Then, Amen is a 1988 novel from Australian author Jon Cleary. It was the fifth book featuring Sydney homicide detective Scobie Malone.Greg Flynn, 'Mills and Boon Meets the Colonial Potboiler', The Weekend Australian 19–20 November 1988 (p.9)Katharine England, 'From Randwick to Rome, Lasting Intrigue', The Advertiser 3 December 1988 (p.

Kundu is a 1956 Australian novel by Morris West. It was one of West's first novels - the second published under his own name - and was reportedly written in only three weeks. A 1993 review of West's career said the novel was a "potboiler" redeemed by his descriptions of New Guinea. It was reprinted paperback in 1978.

In August 1925 Kirkham was in a production of Redemption at the Potboiler Art Theater in Los Angeles. Kirkham was blonde and considered one of the best-dressed actresses. In most of her films she appears in fifteen to eighteen changes of clothing. Kirkham became widely known after the release of The Eyes of the World (1915).

Storm Seekers was, at best B film "potboiler" fare, but whose topic was not only timely but also appeared at a time when networks were looking for material to fill newly emerging broadcast channels. Well over a dozen network premieres took place across Europe, Asia and North America. The film was released in 2010 for home media."Storm Seekers".

The film received substantially negative reviews from critics. Review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes reported that 11% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 100 reviews – with the consensus that the film is "a middling, predictable potboiler with mediocre dialogue and ludicrous plot twists." Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 31 out of 100, based on 23 reviews.

Seeking Justice has received mixed reviews from critics. , the film holds a 28% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 79 reviews with an average rating of 4.52/10. The consensus states: "Seeking Justice is nothing more than a typical potboiler with another phoned-in performance from Nicolas Cage." The film earned a Razzie Award nomination for Cage as Worst Actor.

The Times of India gave 3 out of 5 stars stating "Prassthanam is a tried and tested political potboiler with power, greed and emotions at its core". The Indian Express gave 2.5 out of 5 stars stating "Of the ensemble, in which Chunky Panday gets to wear a bad wig and vamp it up most enjoyably, Ali Fazal is the most impressive".

Movements in European History was a school textbook, originally published by Oxford University Press, by the English author D. H. Lawrence. Lawrence was facing destitution at the time and he wrote it as a potboiler. The first edition was published under the pseudonym "Lawrence H. Davison" because his fictional works, such as The Rainbow (1915), had been prosecuted for alleged eroticism.

Randy Michael Signor of the Chicago Sun-Times said of the setting "if there is a more cross-examined, eviscerated fictional community than Kindle County, it remains a secret". Marc Weingarten of the Los Angeles Times stated that the novel "forces us to grapple with the notion of crime and redemption, a little Dostoevsky-lite to go with our potboiler mystery".

In her second anonymous letter, Ewelina Hańska told Balzac: "Your soul embraces centuries, monsieur."Quoted in Gerson, p. 155. By 1846 Honoré de Balzac had achieved tremendous fame as a writer, but his finances and health were deteriorating rapidly. After writing a series of potboiler novels in the 1820s, he published his first book under his own name, Les Chouans ("The Chouans"), in 1829.

Lindsay attempted to write a more commercial novel with his next work The Haunted Woman (1922), but this was barely more successful than Voyage. He continued to write novels, including the humorous potboiler The Adventures of Monsieur de Mailly, set in France in the time of Louis XIV. Bernard Sellin Life and Works of David Lindsay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. (p. 28-30).

", commenting that "Mr. Marumakan is as archaic as formula is to films and it is packaged as an old- school masala potboiler aimed at Dileep fans. It is exaggerated and formulaic, but relies squarely on the charm of its leading man to pull off its over-the- top tone. And when you walk out of the theatres, you realize why Dileep is called the Janapriya Nayakan.

Lankesh then went on to direct the commercial potboiler Huduga Hudugi, with Dhyan in the lead role. Actresses Sadha and Ileana made special appearances in the same film. In 2012, Lankesh's Diganth and Charmee Kaur starrer, Dev Son of Mudde Gowda released to mostly mixed reviews from the audience and critics alike. In 2015 Lankesh directed Luv U Alia starring V. Ravichandran, Bhumika Chawla and Chandan Kumar.

The producers hoped to arouse concern in the United States, where many people wanted to pursue isolation and stay out of any "European war.""'Nazi Spy': A Potboiler Meant to Stir Outrage", The Los Angeles Times, Feb. 20, 1992, p. 154 Biographer Alexander Walker said in his book about Vivien Leigh, that Litvak tried to open Hollywood's eyes to the threat Germany posed to Europe and the world.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 40% based on 45 reviews, with an average rating of 5.23/10. The site's critics consensus reads: "The Quarrys potboiler premise is largely squandered on a slow-moving plot whose meanderings thwart the efforts of a talented cast." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 53 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

January Jones was born on January 5, 1978, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She is named after January Wayne, a character in Jacqueline Susann's potboiler novel turned film, Once Is Not Enough. She is the daughter of Karen Cox, a store manager; and Marvin Jones, an exercise physiologist. Her family moved to Hecla, South Dakota, (population 400) in 1979, but they moved back to Sioux Falls in 1986.

Murray Waldren, 'Jon Cleary: Character > Builder' The Weekend Australian 1998 "I'm trying to write something more than detective novels", said Cleary in 1989. "I am offended if my book is called a potboiler."Tony Stephens, 'Steinbeck? Don't Make Me Laugh', Sydney Morning Herald, 4 November 1989 p 86 Cleary admits that sales of the last few Malone books declined and he decided to end the series before his publishers did.

Telegram and Gazette, October 15, 1995King, Stephen. ibid The Booklist reviewer declares “Alcott's melodramatic but intriguing tale dramatises the tragic plight of women in her oppressive times“,Seaman, Donna. “A Long Fatal Love Chase”, Booklist, September 15, 1995, p. 140. while Katherine Powers of Forbes, exclaiming over the novel's unexpectedly exuberant violation of norms, recommends the audiobook version as “a real Gothic potboiler by a slumming Louisa May Alcott”.

Although some scholars have argued that there are glimmers of Wollstonecraft's radicalism in this text, they admit that the "potential for critique remains largely latent".Jones, "Literature of advice", 124. Thoughts is therefore usually interpreted either teleologically, as a first step towards the more radical Rights of Woman, or dismissed as a "politically naïve potboiler" written prior to Wollstonecraft's conversion to radicalism while she was writing the Rights of Men.

In the summer of 1859, Boucicault and William Stuart became joint lessees of Burton's New Theatre (originally Tripler's Theatre) on Broadway just below Amity Street. After extensive remodelling, he renamed his new showplace the Winter Garden Theatre. There on 5 December 1859, he premiered his new sensation, the anti-slavery potboiler The Octoroon, in which he also starred. This was the first play to treat seriously the Black American population.

But as the season progressed, reviews became more mixed. Jen Chaney of Vulture wrote that the second season "felt kind of empty" and that "the closest it came to feeling emotionally rich was when it focused on Claire". At the end of the second season, Alan Sepinwall of HitFix wrote that the show is a "ridiculous political potboiler that takes itself too seriously"; he gave the overall season a C-.

Simon Channing Williams (10 June 1945 - 11 April 2009) was a British film producer, born in Maidenhead. After having worked as a production assistant and producer of TV films and TV series in the 1970s and early 1980s, he and Mike Leigh formed the film production company Thin Man Films in 1988.Duedil: Thin Man Films Limited Linked 2013-05-27 This company has produced all of Mike Leigh's films since then, among them the double Oscar-winning Topsy-Turvy, the Oscar-nominated Vera Drake and the Palme d'Or-winning Secrets & Lies. In addition to his collaborations with Mike Leigh, he also produced other films, including teen suicide drama New Year's Day (2001 film) in 1999. He co- produced Nick Love's first film Goodbye Charlie Bright in 2000, and the same year he formed Potboiler Productions with producer Gail EganDuedil: Potboiler Productions Limited Linked 2013-05-27 (who also works closely with Mike Leigh and has been involved in the production of several of his films).

Michael Dyne as Clive Carswell in the 1945 jungle potboiler White Pongo Michael Bradley Dyne (August 19, 1918 – May 17, 1989) was a British-American television and film screenwriter. He was also an actor, and wrote one stage play. Dyne was the son of sculptor Musgrave Bradley Dyne. He was born in London and educated in France and Switzerland, and became a writer and actor in Canada, then emigrated to the United States in 1938.

The first artist he ever saw was an itinerant 'potboiler' painter set up in the window of a store in his hometown. Another tale is that at age 15 he met a buckeye artist, one that travels and paints portraits for a living. His first canvas may have been cut from the covering of a sheepherder's wagon. He repaired fences for ranchers in exchange for the weathered tops of wooden posts for use in carving.

The game has been considered an example of the quality Disney games produced by Capcom. The game was received well by critics. A reviewer for a Nintendo Magazine System UK noted that the Game Boy version of a game is different from "rest of the potboiler platformers gracing the Gameboy", and is "entertaining and varied". Entertainment Weekly gave the game a B and noted the similarities between the game and the Mega Man series.

On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 81% based on 31 reviews. The site's consensus states; "Coolly performed and suspenseful, Jagged Edge is a satisfying enough potboiler that most audiences won't mind if the twists don't quite add up." On Metacritic it has a score of 60% based on reviews from 15 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Variety called it "well- crafted" overall and praised the performances of its two lead actors.

Shepherd 1994, pp. 270–72 It had been intended as a potboiler to earn money for his daughter's social season, and Macleod had been reluctant to read seven boxes of papers from Chamberlain's sister Hilda (Chamberlain's letters to whom are an important primary source); it added little to the portrait painted by his official biographer Keith Feiling.Dutton 2001, pp. 141–42 Macleod used government papers in breach of the "Fifty-year rule" then in operation.

One critic suggests that "the story would be much the same without it".Oliver, p. 82. Balzac had used supernatural elements in the potboiler novels he published under noms de plume, but their presence in Peau de chagrin signaled a turning point in his approach to the use of symbolism. Whereas he had used fantastic objects and events in earlier works, they were mostly simple plot points or uncomplicated devices for suspense.

W. A. Harbinson was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1941. He went to live in England at 17, then emigrated to Australia at 19, serving for six years in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Returning to England, he lived in London for twenty years, spent a few years in Paris, but now lives in West Cork, Ireland. Harbinson began his literary career with a series of potboiler paperbacks published in Sydney, Australia, between 1967–69.

Then the unstable train lurches again, and Serge hits his head, becoming amnesiac. He wanders off the train in a daze, and Samantha discovers the briefcase hidden with her luggage. A few months later, the five women are living large, having shared the $5 million between themselves. When they meet again to discuss Ralph Krunkelton's latest novel (a lurid potboiler inspired by his sudden notoriety after the train crash), they raise a toast to Serge, wherever he may be.

Eugene Chadbourne of AllMusic derides the album, writing that what Haggard does emotionally with his lyrics "is so ripe with sentimentality that with the wrong kind of production it can quickly evolve into just plain rotten," and calls the album's title track "just overblown, a potboiler on the level of the worst Bruce Springsteen material." In his book The Running Kind, biographer David Cantwell classifies the LP as one of Haggard's "never great, but always solid" eighties albums.

Carr is sent to Nice, France, where he has notable political connections, but is mistaken for an assassin and finds his life in jeopardy. Crichton wrote the book while traveling through Europe on a travel fellowship. He visited the Cannes Film Festival and Monaco Grand Prix, and then decided, "any idiot should be able to write a potboiler set in Cannes and Monaco", and wrote it in eleven days. He later described the book as "no good".

Even William was originally created for a grown-up audience, as she saw Just William as a potboiler (Cadogan, 1993). She was pleased by its success, but seemed frustrated that her other novels and short stories did not receive the same recognition. Her first published tale was published in The Girl's Own Paper in 1918, concerning a little boy named Thomas, a forerunner of William who reacts against authority. Crompton tried several times to reformulate William for other audiences.

Critics argued that the prequel to the book, Dongri to Dubai, was better in terms of story. The review by Mumbai Boss said: > The difference is Zaidi’s sensational style of writing that’s more suited to > a cheap potboiler. The book has more clichés than a magazine of bullets. For > example, “The night always seems eerier in the wilderness than in the city. > Especially if death is in the air” and “Men would kill to possess her.

Publishers Weekly wrote that Gray Day "largely succeeds in its efforts to create a tightly wound narrative around a remarkable investigation into a Russian asset." The publication stated that the author successfully increases the reader's feeling of suspense so that "foregone historical conclusions, [...] feel like white-knuckle cliffhangers." It also notes that the book "deglamorizes undercover work while conveying the uncertainty, stress, and excitement that accompany a successful investigation." It did note, on occasions, use of "potboiler territory" language.

It was also dubbed and released in Hindi under the title Hindustani. Featuring Kamal Haasan in dual roles alongside Koirala and Urmila Matondkar, it was the most expensive Indian film at that time, with a budget of 150 million. Nirupama Subramanian of India Today felt the film was a commercial potboiler and wrote, "Indian has dances, foot-tapping melodies by A. R. Rahman and two pretty women, Manisha Koirala and Urmila Matondkar". Both Indian and Hindustani were commercial successes.

Gouravam opened to Mixed Response from the critics. While the underlining points of the film are content, performances of the young and senior actors and the message, the main drawback is lack of entertainment values. Nonetheless, people have praised Allu Sirish for choosing an off-beat film to make his debut as an actor rather than opting for commercial potboiler. The Hindu gave a review stating "A good premise, but the film fails to build it up to give us a riveting watch".

Critical reception for the book was mixed to positive, with the Guardian summarizing it as "Old dog, old tricks." In contrast, the Hindustan Times gave a more positive review, calling it a "potboiler" while also stating it would be a "chart topper". The Sydney Morning Herald and Times Live both gave mostly positive reviews, with the Sydney Morning Herald noting that although the book contained "circumlocutory prattle of needless talk", that it did not ruin their enjoyment of the novel.

Saintsbury, EB, 298 For example, the scandalous novel Vicaire des Ardennes (1822)—banned for its depiction of nearly-incestuous relations and, more egregiously, of a married priest—attributed to a "Horace de Saint- Aubin".Robb, 103 These books were potboiler novels, designed to sell quickly and titillate audiences. In Saintsbury's view, "they are curiously, interestingly, almost enthrallingly bad".Saintsbury, "Honoré de Balzac", xv Saintsbury indicates that Robert Louis Stevenson tried to dissuade him from reading these early works of Balzac.

Sanctuary is a novel by the American author William Faulkner about the rape and abduction of a well-bred Mississippi college girl, Temple Drake, during the Prohibition era. It is considered one of his more controversial works, given its theme of rape. First published in 1931, it was Faulkner's commercial and critical breakthrough, establishing his literary reputation. It is said Faulkner claimed it was a "potboiler", written purely for profit, but this has been debated by scholars and Faulkner's own friends.

On 31 October 2013, it was announced that Michael Fassbender would be starring in the gangster film, titled Trespass Against Us, which Adam Smith would direct, based on the script by Alastair Siddons. Siddons would produce along with Gail Egan and Andrea Calderwood through Potboiler Productions. Film4 Productions would co-finance the film, whose score would be done by The Chemical Brothers. On 16 May 2014, more cast was announced including Brendan Gleeson, Sean Harris, Lyndsey Marshal, Rory Kinnear and Killian Scott.

The usage is related to printing paid for as piece work. Manuscripts with a low amount of text, high amount of pictures, free space or halftitles and preset sections were described with the term. They were more easily finished, but allowed the typesetter to earn the same amount as complicated pages with a large amount of new letters. (Compare potboiler for authors.) A typesetter who fobbed off complicated manuscripts on others and preferred "Speck" was called a Speckjäger (Speck hunter).

Although Alcott wrote the novel hastily while under considerable economic pressure and submitted it under the name “A. M. Barnard” — a pseudonym she used for several other Gothic thrillers — Love Chase received good mainstream reviews in 1995, 129 years after its intended appearance as an ephemeral potboiler. Most contemporary critics choose to emphasize the strong feminist elements, fast- moving story, curiously contemporary “stalker” theme, and — most of all — the conspicuous lack of domesticity (in contrast with Little Women).Shaw, Mary- Liz. "Review".

Comics writer-artist Michael T. Gilbert wrote in liner notes for 2006 reprinting in The Comics Journal that it "reads like a B-movie potboiler, bubbling over with greed, sex, and political corruption". The cover tag line reads: "She was greedy, heartless and calculating. She knew what she wanted and was ready to sacrifice anything to get it". St. John published a second book in the line, the mystery The Case of the Winking Buddha, by pulp novelist Manning Lee Stokes and illustrator Charles Raab.

Shaw introduced the published text of the work with a few words: "Being a potboiler it needs no preface. Its lesson is not, I am sorry to say, unneeded--that in an age when custom has been substituted for conscience, and the middle class are as dead as mutton, the young had better get into trouble to have their souls awakened by disgrace."Violet M. Broad & C. Lewis Broad, Dictionary to the Plays and Novels of Bernard Shaw, A. & C. Black, London, 1929, p.43.

Vazhkai Vazhvatharke was released on 7 February 1964. On the same day, The Indian Express described the story as lacking "life" and the direction as "amateurish", concluding, "The producers, perhaps, want us to believe that this is life and it is worth living." On 21 March 1964, T. M. Ramachandran of Sport and Pastime dismissed the film as a potboiler, but praised the performances of Ganesan and Saroja Devi, while describing Thangavelu, in his dual role performance, as "the real life and soul of the picture".

Lyapis Trubetskoy (, ) was a Belarusian rock band. It was named after comical hero from Ilya Ilf's and Yevgeny Petrov's novel "The Twelve Chairs", poet and potboiler Nikifor Lyapis, who used pseudonym Trubetskoy. Received various awards from RAMP, «Рок-коронация», «Чартова дюжина», «Степной волк», ZD Awards, Ultra-Music Awards. On 17 March 2014 frontman Siarhei Mikhalok announced that the band will be dissolved, on 31 August the band ceased to exist "Lapis Troubetzkoy" announces end of its activity, Interfax (17 March 2014) and broke up in two ensembles: Brutto and Trubetskoy.

The play's debut received positive reviews in the local Philadelphia papers, The Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Theater historian Brian A. Rose compared it unfavorably to Sullivan's 1887 adaptation, saying the earlier version had more nuance. In contrast, he described Forepaugh and Fish's version as a "melodramatic potboiler" that lacked subtlety and played to stereotypes. Robert Louis Stevenson wasn't happy with any of the stage play adaptations, since he said they all added a sex angle to the story that was not in the original novel, which in fact featured no major female characters.

Featuring Kamal Haasan in dual roles alongside Matondkar and Manisha Koirala, it was the most expensive Indian film at that time, with a budget of 150 million. Nirupama Subramanian of India Today felt the film was a commercial potboiler and wrote, "Indian has dances, foot-tapping melodies by A. R. Rahman and two pretty women, Manisha Koirala and Urmila Matondkar". Both Indian and Hindustani were commercial successes. The film was India's official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Awards in 1996, but was not nominated.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 44% based on 164 reviews, with an average rating of 5.45/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "This thriller about a menacing cop wreaking havoc on his neighbors is tense enough but threatens absurdity when it enters into excessive potboiler territory." On Metacritic, the film has an average weighted score of 47 out of 100, based on 28 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale.

Mike learns he is regarded in this world as the villain, Spanish Admiral Miguel de Lobo, a "pirate potboiler". He knows that the villains in stories written by Hackett often do not come to a favorable end, and is therefore anxious to exit the situation safely. Mike recognizes the specific work into which he has been transported: a tale by his friend called "Blood and Loot". Assuming the role of the villain, Mike realizes he must face off against a formidable opponent in the story, its protagonist named Tom Bristol.

Based on 63 reviews collected by review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 75%. The site's consensus states: "Cop Land gifts its star- studded cast with richly imagined characters while throttling the audience with carefully-ratcheted suspense, although this potboiler lacks the moral complexity of the crime classics that it harkens to." On Metacritic it has a score of 64 out of 100 based on reviews from 21 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B-" on an A+ to F scale.

Despite its well- established director and cast, Twisted received almost universally negative reviews, with a rating of 1% on Rotten Tomatoes based on reviews from 136 critics with an average score of 2.9 out of 10. The website's critical consensus states: "An implausible, overheated potboiler that squanders a stellar cast, Twisted is a clichéd, risible whodunit." The film is one of the lowest-rated on the site. William Thomas writing for Empire magazine described the role-reversal of the film as "contrived", while allowing that the film "may dole out a few guilty pleasures".

Some people mistakenly call them penny dreadfuls, but that term refers to a form of potboiler fiction. They often featured garish caricatures of men like the "Dude" or women like the "Floozy." One reason they rapidly became popular throughout America and Europe was because literacy rates were increasing at that time among the poor and working classes who rarely had much more than a penny to spend on such luxuries. But, according to noted valentine authority Nancy Rosin, president of the National Valentine Collectors Association, their use wasn't restricted to the lower economic classes.

In January, 1960, Pyramid Books issued a paperback novelization "based on the stage and screen plays"; the author was celebrated American potboiler novelist and showbiz biographer Ann Pinchot (1905–1998). The cover price was 35¢. It was concurrently published in the UK, also as a paperback, by WDL; the cover price was 2'6. The nearly identical front panel designs feature a painting by prolific paperback cover artist Tom Miller, intimately depicting Kay Kendall, reclining on a couch with a martini, and Yul Brynner, behind the couch, leaning in.

The film was a major production for its time, with an estimate budget of $782,000. In his 1983 book Classics of the Silent Cinema, radio and TV host Joe Franklin claimed this film was "the first American epic not directed by Griffith". In the 1980 documentary Hollywood: A Celebration of American Silent Cinema, Jesse L. Lasky Jr. maintained that the goal of director James Cruze was " ... to elevate the Western, which had always been sort of a potboiler kind of film, to the status of an epic".Brownlow, Kevin.

Starring Ida Lupino as Emily, Olivia de Havilland as Charlotte, Nancy Coleman as Anne and Arthur Kennedy as Branwell, Devotion made no effort in authenticity. It portrays Emily in love with revered Nichols who is in love with Charlotte. The film, made as potboiler romance, had no resemblance to the actual lives of the Brontë sisters and was decried by Brontë enthusiast for its blatant inaccuracies. The Brontës of Haworth, a four-part drama made for Yorkshire television, was broadcast in 1973 with a script written by Christopher Fry; directed and produced by Marc Miller.

While working as a stand-in during screen tests, McGoohan was signed to a contract with the Rank Organisation. Rank put him in mostly villainous parts: High Tide at Noon (1957), directed by Philip Leacock; Hell Drivers (1957), directed by Cy Endfield, as a violent bully; and the steamy potboiler The Gypsy and the Gentleman (1958), directed by Joseph Losey.PATRICK McGOOHAN Picture Show; London70.1823 (March 8, 1958): 8. He had good roles on TV in anthology series such as Television Playwright, Folio, Armchair Theatre, ITV Play of the Week and ITV Television Playhouse.

Reviews for My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done have been mixed. , the film holds a 49% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 41 reviews with an average rating of 5.76/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Enigmatic and digressive, this mystical potboiler possesses director Werner Herzog's penchant for offbeat atmosphere, but lacks the absurdist humor and profundity that makes his previous trips into madness compelling." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 59 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Beginning with Tattooed Life, the studio issued Suzuki his first warning for "going too far". He responded with Carmen from Kawachi after which he was ordered to "play it straight" and had his budget slashed for his next film. The result was Tokyo Drifter, an "ostensibly routine potboiler" made into a "jaw-dropping, eye- popping fantasia". Further reduced to filming in black-and-white Suzuki made his 40th film in his 12 years with the company, Branded to Kill (1967), considered an avant-garde masterpiece by critics, for which Hori promptly fired him.

"Little meat in CBC's athletic potboiler". The Globe and Mail, October 6, 1979. Carver is not an amputee; Boldt himself was a stand-in for the film's athletic scenes and others where it was necessary for the character's amputation to be visible. The film was not, however, a literal adaptation of Boldt's life; while it depicted Aaron Kornylo as a past Olympic athlete struggling to return to sport after an adult injury, in reality Boldt lost his leg in childhood and had only ever competed at the Paralympic Games.

When Balzac began writing Le Père Goriot in 1834, he had written several dozen books, including a stream of pseudonymously published potboiler novels. In 1829 he published Les Chouans, the first novel to which he signed his own name; this was followed by Louis Lambert (1832), Le Colonel Chabert (1832), and La Peau de chagrin (1831).Robb, pp. 425–429. Around this time, Balzac began organizing his work into a sequence of novels that he eventually called La Comédie humaine, divided into sections representing various aspects of life in France during the early 19th century.

Robb writes that his parents supported his new career "quite generously". After moving into a tiny room near the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris, Balzac wrote for one year, without success. Frustrated, he moved back to his family in the suburb of Villeparisis and borrowed money from his parents to pursue his literary ambitions further. He spent the next several years writing simple potboiler novels, which he published under a variety of pseudonyms. He shared some of his income from these with his parents, but by 1828 he still owed them 50,000 francs.

His Little Clay Cart was also enacted in New York City in 1924 at the Neighborhood Playhouse, which was then an off-Broadway theatre, at the Theater de Lys in 1953, and at the Potboiler Art Theater in Los Angeles in 1926, when it featured actors such as James A. Marcus, Symona Boniface and Gale Gordon. Following his death in 1938, some of his original poems were published in a posthumous memorial volume with a biography, along with several of his translated verses. This was the only book of original poetry published by the University of California Press for several decades.

He sailed to Hawaii with the cast and crew for several weeks of filming. After his work with DeMille, Shimada was hired for numerous extra roles and bit parts, mainly uncredited, as houseboys and valets. He was cast as a martial artist in the 1934 potboiler Charlie Chan's Courage. In Midnight Club, made shortly after, he was a member of a gang of jewel thieves, and he then played a gangster henchman in Public Hero ﹟1. He appeared briefly the Claudette Colbert-Louise Beavers version of the film Imitation of Life (1934) and in Mae West’s film, Klondike Annie (1936).

Were you, Frances?" Farmer's reply was, "No, I was never an alcoholic", an adamant denial that also applied to Edwards's subsequent question about "dope." In August 1957, Farmer returned to the stage in New Hope, Pennsylvania, for a summer stock production of Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden. Through the spring of 1958, Farmer appeared in several live television dramas, some of which are preserved on kinescope; the same year, she made her last film, The Party Crashers, a potboiler drama produced by Paramount and described by one writer as "a crappy B-movie about wild teenagers and stupid adults.

Nicholas Ray used Trucolor for his offbeat 1954 western, Johnny Guitar. Trucolor went on location as well to Europe as William Dieterle filmed the life of Richard Wagner in Magic Fire (1956) and Portugal featured in the potboiler Lisbon (1956) directed by and starring Ray Milland. Republic made a John Ford Americana-type film in the process, Come Next Spring (1956). John Ford, though, refused to film The Quiet Man (1952) in Trucolor despite the fact that Republic's head Herbert J. Yates insisted that the process be used. Ford’s refusal prevailed, for Technicolor was employed for The Quiet Man.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 53% based on 169 reviews, with an average rating of 5.8/10. The site's consensus reads, "Triple 9s pulpy potboiler thrills don't quite live up to the ferocious talents of its cast, but the film's efficient, solidly crafted genre fun is often enough to balance its troublesome flaws." Metacritic gives the film a score of 52 out of 100, based on 41 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale.

It's an > entertaining potboiler, though a minor work ... Ladd gives an icy action- > hero performance as someone who revels in his disdain for women as > untrustworthy companions. By Ladd's politically incorrect moves, he takes on > the characteristics of the film noir protagonist--which gives this > programmer its energy. Ladd quotes an ancient Hindu saying 'Man who trust > woman walk on duckweed over pond,' which tells us all we want to know about > how he has stayed alive for so long while in the company of dangerous women, > ones like Virginia, while Bill so easily succumbed to the beauty of the > femme fatale.Schwartz, Dennis.

Yet there can be no denying that Srimanthudu achieves more than any big ticket Tollywood potboiler has in more in that last decade , for the simple reason that it is a drama made like one." Sethumadhavan N of the Bangalore Mirror rated the film 3.5 out of 5 and wrote, "Make no mistake, Srimanthudu is certainly a big commercial entertainer and has most of the elements needed for the same. But to deliver a total commercial which doesn't have a great plot and yet remaining engaging all the way isn't easy at all. That is where the writing by Siva emerges triumphant.

Arjun Janya's music add value to the film and so does the presence of a top-star cast that includes Aditya, Kumar Bangarappa and Srujan Lokesh. Chintan makes a promising debut as a commercial movie director. Chakravarthy may not be the best, even in terms of a commercial potboiler, but it has enough ammunition to be a cracker for Darshan's fans." The writer Sunayana Suresh of Times of India rated the film 2.5/5 stars and stated that "Darshan looks like he has given his all for the film, what with sporting multiple looks and dedicating many days to live his role as Chakravarthy.

Ebert singled out the film's portrayal of Al Capone, who is depicted as arrogant and childish to the point of misbehaving in public and in court, as the biggest disappointment of the film, while giving praise to Sean Connery's work. While he was voted first place in an Empire magazine historical poll for worst film accent (since despite playing an Irish-American, Connery's Scottish accent was still very noticeable), Connery was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance. Pauline Kael called it "a great audience movie – a wonderful potboiler." Time magazine ranked it as one of the best films of 1987.

The emotions look forced. All in all, "Naa Peru Surya" has Allu Arjun's best performance, but it doesn't involve you totally." Times of India gave it 2.5/5 stars, reviewing, "Naa Peru Surya, Naa Illu India is a hard film to describe, what with so much happening in a span of fewer than 3 hours. The film has all the requirements of a commercial potboiler – there's unbridled patriotism, a love track, a family drama, an ambitious man striving to make it big in his career, several points of conflict replete with goondas and other moral dilemmas that all play out, interspersed at regular intervals with colourful and highly choreographed songs.

About midway thru the film the balls started bumping into each other, Sagal began to stumble and by the time the crew was completing the final scene Sagal was on the floor with the balls bouncing wildly away from his grasp." Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film was "strictly a potboiler, but it's without pretensions and never runs dry. Director Boris Segal has captured some stark apocalyptic images and gotten some suitably vivid performances. Most importantly, he keeps things moving so fast that there's not enough time to ponder credibility gaps big enough to fly a Boeing 747 through.

In their book Men of Music, Wallace Brockway and Herbert Weinstock termed the piece an "atrocious potboiler". Beethoven had no illusions about its merits, and responded to similar criticism in his own time: "What I shit is better than anything you could ever think up!" It has had somewhat of a renaissance in recent years as it forms the centrepiece of the Battle Proms Concerts that take place at stately homes around the UK. This is the only concert series known to play the piece with the full complement of 193 live cannon: modern technology has allowed it to be played using electronic firing devices, operated by the orchestra percussionist.

His first commercial novel, Das Geduldige Fleisch was published in 1955. The novel is set on the Eastern Front and centres around the conflicts within Heinrich's former unit. An immediate success, the novel was translated to English and published as The Willing Flesh (1956) by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the U.K., and as Cross of Iron (1957) by Bobbs-Merrill in the U.S. In 1977, Sam Peckinpah adapted it as the film Cross of Iron, featuring James Coburn as the protagonist anti-hero Rolf Steiner. Though he began as a war genre novelist, Heinrich concentrated in the potboiler genre of soapy, sexy stories that were very popular in the 1970s and 1980s.

This is due to excessive masala elements, be it through fight sequences, over-the-top comedy, and even an unnecessary item number. The story of a good guy and bad guy who look identical, with intentions of being a top cop and top criminal, respectively, is a plot that's often been explored in Indian films. But, Shekar gives his viewers a story with a twist. Sadly, though, he yields to most of the staple mainstream mainstays, be it the two duets and one item song routine or the multiple fight sequences, ensuring the film ends up being just another masala potboiler, rather than use the novelty that it has in the script.

Newman then went on to star in the New York production of the longest running play on the British stage, Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap. After numerous parts on Broadway, including the musical What makes Sammy Run, Sidney Kingsley's Night Live, America Hurrah,, Newman went on to do TV and movies. While working at nights on Broadway in What Makes Sammy Run, Newman starred as attorney John Barnes in the daytime drama, The Edge of Night for two years. Earlier, Newman also co-starred in his first film, the gangster potboiler, Pretty Boy Floyd (1960), but he made his breakthrough with his first starring role in The Lawyer (1970), directed by Sidney Furie, for which Newman received critical acclaim.

Harold D. Schuster (August 1, 1902 – July 19, 1986) was an American editor and film director. In 1937 he made Wings of the Morning, the first-ever three- strip Technicolor film shot in Europe.IMDB movie trivia While the majority of Schuster's directorial output can be considered routine, there are two acknowledged gems among them. His 1954 film noir thriller Loophole is a fast- paced, well-acted drama about a bank teller framed for a $50,000 embezzlement and his efforts to clear his name, and his 1957 Dragoon Wells Massacre is, despite its potboiler title, an actionful, tightly made western with some surprising plot twists in which many of the characters aren't quite what they seem to be.

In September 2015, it was announced that Lenny Abrahamson would direct an adaptation of Sarah Waters' supernatural drama novel The Little Stranger, scripted by Lucinda Coxon, in which Domhnall Gleeson would play the lead role of Dr Faraday. On 5 May 2017, Ruth Wilson was reportedly cast as the female lead. On 23 May 2017, Focus Features acquired the worldwide distribution rights to the film, excluding four territories: France and Switzerland, where Pathé would be distributing, and the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom where 20th Century Fox would be distributing for Pathé. Will Poulter and Charlotte Rampling were also cast in the film, which was produced by Egan, Andrea Calderwood, and Ed Guiney, and developed by Potboiler Productions, Film4 Productions, Element and Dark Trick.

Nor was he the only one; in 1795 Richard Warner wrote a potboiler entitled Netley Abbey, a Gothic Story in two volumes, featuring skullduggery at the abbey during the middle ages. Dark deeds before the Dissolution also appeared in the section of Richard Harris Barham's Ingoldsby Legends (1837–1845) covering Netley. This complex satire pokes fun at the medieval church and the monks (whom he accuses of having walled up an erring nun in one of the vaults and ensuring God's revenge upon them) and the tourists who crowded contemporary Netley, while at the same time showing appreciation of the beauty of the ruins. Netley Abbey, an Operatic Farce, by William Pearce, was first performed in 1794 at Covent Garden.

Raja Sen of Rediff gave it 2.5 out of 5 stars and felt Dabangg 2 was less unwatchable than its predecessor and it had "absolutely nothing new to offer, and nothing to remember, quote or take away from the theatre". The Indian Express rated the film 2.5 out of 5 stars and said "Arbaaz should have given himself some more time" to make the film watchable. Stardust publishers Manga gave the film 2.5 out of 5 stars also calling it a "one-time watch potboiler". Anupama Chopra of the Hindustan Times gave the film 2.5 out of 5 stars and said Dabangg 2 does not match "the zing of the original" and "there wasn't one line that stayed with me after the film".

Drummer Vinny Appice left the band following the reunion show to rejoin Ronnie James Dio's solo band, later appearing on Dio's Strange Highways and Angry Machines. Iommi and Butler enlisted former Rainbow drummer Bobby Rondinelli, and reinstated former vocalist Tony Martin. The band returned to the studio to work on new material, although the project was not originally intended to be released under the Black Sabbath name. As Geezer Butler explains: Under pressure from their record label, the band released their seventeenth studio album, Cross Purposes, on 8 February 1994, under the Black Sabbath name. The album received mixed reviews, with Blender giving the album two stars, calling Soundgarden's 1994 album Superunknown "a far better Sabbath album than this by-the-numbers potboiler".

" Robert Abele from LA Weekly called the series an "effortlessly entertaining potboiler about the allure of dangerous attraction after probably a few too many shows drearily dissecting broken relationships." Hal Boedecker of the Orlando Sentinel praised True Blood as being "one of the strongest new series in an uncertain fall ... Alan Ball has adapted Charlaine Harris' novels with wit, verve and passion." Tim Goodman from the San Francisco Chronicle praised the performances in the episode, saying Paquin is "deceptively intriguing" and that both she and Moyer "do well here." Alan Sepinwall gave the series a fairly negative review, saying "... It's the kind of show where you have to care a lot more about vampires than I do to stick around for long.

Tread Softly Stranger did reasonable business at the box-office on its original release but received little critical attention, being seen as a typical crime potboiler which would be watched once and then forgotten. Its reputation was upgraded in later decades, with critics finding much to admire, particularly the cinematography by Douglas Slocombe with its authentic feel of everyday life in a steel town of the era. The main incongruity in the film is cited as the noticeable lack of Yorkshire accents in characters who were supposedly born and brought up in the area. It is also questionable whether a town such as Rawborough in the 1950s would have been the venue for a nightclub of the type in which Calico is employed, a far cry from the working men's club it purports to be.

The film has an approval rating of 8% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 189 reviews; the average rating is 3.49/10. The site's consensus reads: "Jim Carrey has been sharp in a number of non-comedic roles, but this lurid, overheated, and self serious potboiler is not one of them. The Number 23 is clumsy, unengaging, and mostly confusing." Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of "B-" on scale of A+ to F. Of the few critics who liked the film, Richard Roeper and critic George Pennachio of KABC-TV in Los Angeles stand out, as they gave the film a "2 thumbs up" rating on the television show Ebert & Roeper (Pennachio was standing in for Roger Ebert due to Ebert's illness).Ebert & Roeper, air date February 24, 2007.

Wheen (2001), p. 389, p. 396 and pp. 400–02 Still short of income, he first completed a biography of his fellow-journalist Hannen Swaffer, which was indifferently received—"a feeble potboiler", according to Davenport-Hines. Friends organised an elaborate 70th birthday party for him on 21 May 1975; "one duke, two dukes' daughters, sundry lords, a bishop, a poet laureate—not bad for an old left-wing MP", Driberg observed to a guest.Wheen (2001), p. 406 In November 1975 he was granted a life peerage, and on 21 January 1976 was introduced to the House of Lords as Baron Bradwell, of Bradwell juxta Mare in the County of Essex.Wheen (2001), p. 409 On 14 April he tabled a motion in the Lords calling on the government to consider the withdrawal of troops from Northern Ireland, but won little support.

Hide and Seek (1973) was a meta-fictional novel exploring the relationship between reader and author and contains a central protagonist, 'Daniel Miller', who is convinced he is the plaything of an omniscient author. This concept forms the core of Potter's next two novels, and portions of Hide and Seek would reappear in several of his television plays, especially Follow the Yellow Brick Road (1972) and The Singing Detective. Ticket to Ride (1986) was written between drafts of The Singing Detective and concerns a herbithologist who is unable to make love to his wife unless he imagines her as a prostitute. This was followed in 1987 by Blackeyes: a study of a model whose abusive uncle, a writer, has stolen details of his niece's experiences in the glamour industry as the basis for his latest potboiler.

Definition of "Playing at Cherry-Pit with Satan": Referring to the game of throwing cherry-pits in a hole and also found as an expression in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and used to indicate that Malvolio is on familiar terms with the Devil. p. 37 John H. Collins, analysing the influence of Mudford's work, comments that "the Shroud story is a first rate piece of writing comparable to the best half-dozen works by Poe" and that "it should not just be dismissed as a mere potboiler which the genius of Poe transformed."American Notes & Queries – a Journal for the Curious 1943–44 By Hesperides He goes on to mention that he thinks many readers mistakenly think that the "Iron Shroud" is one of Poe's works thus further strengthening Poe's reputation by attributing to him a story that he actually plagiarised. In the Dictionary of Literary Biography Mudford's writing is described as vigorous while as a writer he is called a master at creating atmosphere.

Dickinson with John Wayne in Rio Bravo In 1959, Dickinson's big-screen breakthrough role came in Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo, in which she played a flirtatious gambler called "Feathers" who becomes attracted to the town sheriff played by Dickinson's childhood idol John Wayne. The film co- starred Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and Walter Brennan. When Hawks sold his personal contract with her to a major studio without her knowledge, she was unhappy. Dickinson nonetheless became one of the more prominent leading ladies of the next decade, beginning with The Bramble Bush with Richard Burton. She also took a supporting role in Ocean's 11 (1960) with friends Sinatra and Martin. These were followed by a political potboiler, A Fever in the Blood (1961); a Belgian Congo-based melodrama, The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961), in which she played a missionary nurse tempted by lust; a scheming woman in Rome Adventure (1962), filmed in Italy, and the title role in Jean Negulesco's Jessica (1962) with Maurice Chevalier, in which she played a young midwife resented by the married women of the town, set in Sicily.

He was part of the curatorial team for the presentation of acquisitions of the Dakis Joannou Collection (Athens, 2004). While associate director at the New Museum, Gioni curated the signature group exhibitions Younger Than Jesus and Ostalgia. Art critic Jerry Saltz wrote this about Ostalgia in his review of the top ten art events in 2011: "curator Massimiliano Gioni is now master of his own form of large-scale exhibition as narrative, time machine, pleasurable pedagogy, historical potboiler come to life, and insight." As the curator of the 8th Gwangju Biennale (2010), in Gwangju, South Korea, Gioni created a sprawling investigation of the relationships that bind people to images and images to people. Titled 10,000 Lives and including works by more than 100 artists, realized between 1901 and 2010, as well as several new commissions, the exhibition was configured as a temporary museum in which both artworks and cultural artifacts are brought together to compose an idiosyncratic catalogue of figures and icons, faces and masks, idols and dolls.

The Brontës' fiction is seen by some feminist critics as prime examples of Female Gothic, exploring woman's entrapment within domestic space and subjection to patriarchal authority and the transgressive and dangerous attempts to subvert and escape such restriction. Emily's Cathy and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre are both examples of female protagonists in such a role.Jackson (1981) pp123-29) Louisa May Alcott's Gothic potboiler, A Long Fatal Love Chase (written in 1866, but published in 1995) is also an interesting specimen of this subgenre. Elizabeth Gaskell's tales "The Doom of the Griffiths" (1858) "Lois the Witch", and "The Grey Woman" all employ one of the most common themes of Gothic fiction, the power of ancestral sins to curse future generations, or the fear that they will. The genre was also a heavy influence on more mainstream writers, such as Charles Dickens, who read Gothic novels as a teenager and incorporated their gloomy atmosphere and melodrama into his own works, shifting them to a more modern period and an urban setting, including Oliver Twist (1837–8), Bleak House (1854) (Mighall 2003) and Great Expectations (1860–61).

" Wesley Morris, writing for The Boston Globe, said that the movie captures the 2003 Jay-Z and Beyoncé duet more than the 1967 Arthur Penn classic with its monotonous chases and middling supporting cast that make up Curtis-Hall's take on the hood film genre, saying "It's [also] as if the only way he could justify making another movie smitten with thug life is by having the characters commit their crimes amid a climate of civic activism." The A.V. Clubs Nathan Rabin gave the film a "D" grade, saying "Waist Deep might have succeeded had Curtis-Hall pushed the outrageousness of his potboiler premise to the level of comic-book Grand Guignol, but the film lacks the energy and pizzazz to work as lurid pulp. Like the forgotten blaxploitation schlock it often resembles, the film aspires to nothing but cheap thrills, but while it's plenty cheap, it's far from thrilling." Entertainment Weekly writer Gregory Kirschling gave the film a "B" grade, saying that Curtis-Hall infuses the B-level urban fantasy plot with some "surprising social and emotional flavorings rarely found in the genre.