It's a Wonderful Life turned the story and what was worth using from the three scripts into a screenplay that Capra would rename "It's a Wonderful Life". The script underwent many revisions throughout pre-production and during filming. Final screenplay credit went to Goodrich, Hackett, and Capra, with "additional scenes" by Jo Swerling. Capra produced the film with his independent motion picture production company Liberty Films. Dalton Trumbo had written a draft that was different from the final film. In Trumbo's draft, George Bailey is an idealistic politician that slowly grows more cynical as the story progresses, then tries to commit suicide after losing an
The Wonderful Country In "TIME"'s review, the magazine called it "...an honest book written with obvious care and even reserved passion..." The review added: "Neither Brady nor anyone else in the book is a successfully developed character, but with all its weaknesses 'The Wonderful Country' is still a western plus. What is extra comes in author Lea's fine descriptive writing, a love for the West that is conveyed with grace and dignity, an authentic sense of place." Lou Rodenberge, of McMurry College, said that the novel is: "...the best to date of all fiction created from materials of border life", from "The Southern