potboiler

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• Pukhov, a careerist painter, sacrifices his artistic integrity by cynically painting potboilers to please factory and party committees.
• The Rat Pack fanbase loves Some Came Running, from the James Jones potboiler, not just for its Sinatra-Dino-MacLaine dream cast, but for its delirious expressionism, especially in the hallucinatory final fairground sequence. Meet Me In St Louis embodies the virtues of a bygone era
• Pukhov, a careerist painter, sacrifices his artistic integrity by cynically painting potboilers to please factory and party committees.
• That's pretty good for what some critics considered a mere "potboiler" or "tearjerker" -- but had it been just that, it wouldn't have had the impact that it had. Thomas Gladysz: A Lost Girl, a Fake Diary, and a Forgotten Author
• Indian films are everywhere, and not just the potboilers.
• Here was an unserious, part-time author having it all and more for a potboiler!
• He could easily have checked his facts, but did not bother to because so far as he was concerned the Holmes stories were potboilers.
• Salil's tight-knit screenplay gives the film a racy pace and saves it from being reduced to the usual Swapan Saha potboiler which is almost impossible to sit through till the end. Screen News
• A make-belief potboiler, the film has grossed over a crore in a week.
• Are we to compete with the Western potboilers flooding the Indian market?