The novel, 'Random Harvest' by James Hilton might be un-filmable.
I read this book every year on November 11. And, every year a lump forms in my throat at the novels' end.
Unfortunately, the movie doesn't deliver. Ronald Coleman is mis-cast (too old), Robert Donat would have been better. The movie doesn't capture the feeling of pre-WWII England sonambulisticly heading into war. Hilton did a great job with the novel; but unlike his 'Lost Horizon' and 'Good-bye, Mr. Chips', Hollywood couldn't put it on the screen.
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I read this book every year on November 11. And, every year a lump forms in my throat at the novels' end.
Unfortunately, the movie doesn't deliver. Ronald Coleman is mis-cast (too old), Robert Donat would have been better. The movie doesn't capture the feeling of pre-WWII England sonambulisticly heading into war. Hilton did a great job with the novel; but unlike his 'Lost Horizon' and 'Good-bye, Mr. Chips', Hollywood couldn't put it on the screen.
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