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...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...
...ALONE-James Hilton- Little, Brown...
First-line critics do not admit that James Hilton (Lost Horizon, Goodbye, Mr. Chips) has anything more or better than 1) an ability to write smooth narrative; 2) an infectious British sentimentality. But such cat-laughs have been drowned out by the popular verdict. All but the most sea-green critics would agree that to have two novels simultaneously reproduced in the cinema* is equivalent to one plaster bust in the Hall of Fame. Last week Author Hilton put out his latest little number, the first to appear in three years. First readers found it about the same size...
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...
...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...