Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas - The Criterion Collection (Chains / Tormento / Nobody's Children / The White Angel) Reviews

At a time when the new kid on the cinematic block was Italian neorealism, winning awards around the world for films like Open City and Shoeshine and Bicycle Thieves, mid-level Italian studio director Raffaello Matarazzo was churning out familiar studio product: low budget comedies and literary adaptations which were very popular with the masses. In 1949, he began a series florid melodramatic films which the country embraced in the same way America embraced the heightened dramas of director Douglas Sirk. Four of these melodramas, all starring Italian movie idols Armedeo Nazzari and Yvonne Sanson, are a part of this latest Eclipse release Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas. 

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