Word: reworked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face. Says he: "Surrealists and modern abstractionists run the risk of producing nothing but a series of colored symbols." Rumored to be a protege of Gertrude Stein's, he has in fact seen her only once, when he did a sombre Portrait, whose hands he had to rework ten times before they satisfied...
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...