This meant that the movie had to take a very different approach to the story. The novel keeps the true identity of Paula/Margaret a secret until the very end, something that would have been impossible in a film, where characters’ faces must be seen. Claudine West, George Froeschel, and Arthur Wimperis adapted the novel for the screen, and received an Academy Award nomination. Random Harvest is a 1942 film based on the 1941 James Hilton novel of the same title, directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Unknown to him, Paula is nearby and through a twist of fate have a future together. He involves himself in the family business and is quite successful. He’s actually quite wealthy and returns to the family home in Sussex. He awakens having recovered the memory he lost, but now has no memory of the life he’s led with Paula including that he has a child. On his way there however, he is struck by a car crossing the street. Thing are looking up when he’s invited to an interview with a major newspaper. He and Paula are soon married and later have a child. Charles is shy, owing mostly to the fact that he has only just recovered his speech, but he hopes to make his life ass a writer. He flees the asylum and meets the beautiful Paula who takes an immediate liking to him. Charles Rainier is a World War I veteran, an amnesiac who remembers nothing of his past. She takes Harrison on a drive where they find Charles, the last line revealing that Charles had been with Paula all along.Taglines: He had found love – lost it – and now had found it again! Charles wants to find out what happened to Paula and goes off searching while Harrison tells Mrs. They go there and Charles learns about the years he lost, from escaping the asylum all the way to slipping in Liverpool and remembering he was Rainier. Going back to Harrison's narration, he and Charles go to a music hall one night, where Charles starts to remember things, including the asylum he stayed at. Everything about Smithy, or Charles rather, going back home, meeting Kitty, and almost marrying her remains largely intact from the movie. The novel then switches to the third person as Charles recounts waking up in Liverpool after losing a few years of his life. Narrated by Harrison in the first person, he sits down one night with his employer, who tells him his story, or at least as much of it as he can remember. Paula never became Charles's secretary the story starts with Harrison, a character we only see at film's end, get hired as Charles's assistant and he is used as the audience surrogate the way Greer Garson is in the movie. You do not want to know what I'm capable of.įrom what I gather, the book's structure is very different. On a slightly unrelated note, if you're the monster who tore out of the last page of my Random Harvest copy and you're reading this, I will find you and I will make you do something highly horrific. I know, I cheated, so if I got something wrong in the following few paragraphs, please politely correct me in the comments and I'll make amendments right quick. So, anything I tell you about the novel, I found online. I have a copy from 1942 that I found at a library sale over a year ago, but the timing has been impossible. Let me just say this: I haven't read the book.
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