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Cinema Director Frank Capra, Playwright Robert Riskin, Cinemactress Edna May Oliver, arrived...
...Lost Horizon" we have a thought vividly presented, artistically developed, and--like all pithy ideas--dropped ingloriously at the completion of a circle in impressive, but essentially trite conclusion. The circle is the story in James Hilton's novel or, in this case, the scenario of Frank Capra's production. The conclusion is a toast to the truth of the author's though by his characters...
...Story of Louis Pasteur. Screenwriters Sheridan Gibney and Pierre Collings, who wrote and adapted The Story of Louis Pasteur, got two Oscars, for the best original screen story and the best screen adaptation of the year. Oscar for the best direction of the year went to Frank Capra for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. The Academy gave out 15 other Oscars for everything from film editing to sound recording. Of these, four went to MGM, six to Warner Brothers. Biggest Oscar collection in Hollywood is that of Cartoonist Walt Disney. Last week he got his fifth, for the best cartoon...
Lost Horizon (Columbia). As soon as Director Frank Capra read James Hilton's prizewinning, million-copy novel, he wanted to screen it. He says: "The story had bigness. It held a mirror up to the thoughts of every human being on earth...
...Director Capra went to work with typical Hollywood opulence. He bought the original manuscript, gave it to Scenarist Robert Riskin to rework, devised one of the most magnificent sets in cinema history. He had the good judgment to leave the story almost exactly as it was written and the skill to match Author Hilton's verbal talent with pictorial subtlety. After this week's opening, most critics held Lost Horizon as fine a cinema as it is a book. Its one flaw is Director Capra's one major deviation from the novel-a happy ending...