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...Robert Riskin's better pictures. "Lost Horizon," and "It Happened One Night," now running at the Majestic are seven and eight years old respectively, but are both good, sound pictures and genuine entertainment...
...drop, soap, matches, shoelaces, games, puzzles, gadgets of all sorts, packaged to carry a message. These are the domain of Operations' Overseas Publications Bureau, headed by ex-Associated Pressman Ed Stanley. They are the work of such once highly paid talents as Artist-Humorist Ludwig Bemelmans, Scenarist Robert Riskin (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, etc.), Novelist Jerome (I Can Get It for You Wholesale) Weidmann, Author Humphrey Cobb (Paths of Glory), Adman Ted Patrick and others...
...thanks to the stubbornness of Producer Everett Riskin that Mr. Jordan was made at all. When Harry Segall applied for a Columbia job some three years ago, his play (titled Heaven Can Wait) was his best recommendation. Producer Riskin read it, hired the author, badgered Columbia for a year and a half to let him make it. When his contract ran out, he refused to re-sign until the studio gave him a green light for Mr. Jordan...
...Picture has many excellent, many not so excellent details, and will doubtless accent for millions the virtues of neighborly compassion. Fundamentally there is just one thing wrong with it. When an organist draws on the full resources of his instrument, as have Messrs. Capra & Riskin in invoking almost every great emotional appeal from the Nativity to The Star Spangled Banner, the largest possible music had better come out. Anything else may topple artistically from sheer pompous top-heaviness. When Capra-Riskin open up the cinema organ in Meet John Doe, what comes out is not solid but uncertain musical structure...
...popular, if not the most active, man at the waterfront bars. Had he gone to Yale he might well have been the Most Popular Man in his class. As it was, he went to Hollywood and became the most popular man in the nation-an ideal choice for Capra-Riskin's Meet John...