Six Screenplays by Robert Riskin

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	Six Screenplays by Robert Riskin
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When we hear the titles It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Lost Horizon, and Meet John Doe, we think immediately of Frank Capra, their brilliant and much beloved director. But did you know that these and many other Capra films were all written by the same man, the unfairly neglected Robert Riskin? Such films, like all of Capra's best, are wonderfully witty, a delightful marriage of word and image. With Six Screenplays by Robert Riskin, you can read about the lesser-known element of the Capra/Riskin collaboration and treat yourself to six of the best screenplays ever written. Patrick McGilligan has provided good notes to the scripts as well as a fine introduction that describes Riskin's Lower East Side upbringing in New York City, his early career in movies, his collaboration and friendship with Capra, his marriage to Fay Wray, and his sad, untimely death.