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Word: twainian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...form been reached in which the many-faceted material is properly displayed. Few creative works are translatable from one medium to another, but A Connecticut Yankee is no less trenchant as a picture than as a novel; it is wonderful entertainment, rippling with chuckles, expanding often into resonant Twainian belly-laughs. Director David Butler has omitted the sociological satire of the novel. He has concentrated on the humor of anachronism and made a thorough job of it. His method is not subtle, but the book is not either, and the picture is just as funny as the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 20, 1931 | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

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