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Lost Horizon. (1937 film) Lost Horizon (re-released in 1942 as The Lost Horizon of Shangri-La) is a 1937 American adventure drama fantasy film directed by Frank Capra. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1933 novel of the same name by James Hilton. The film exceeded its original budget by more than $776,000 and took five years to ...
Lost Horizon. Lost Horizon is a 1933 novel by English writer James Hilton. The book was turned into a film, also called Lost Horizon, in 1937 by director Frank Capra and a lavish musical remake in 1973 by producer Ross Hunter with music by Burt Bacharach. It is the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery located high in the mountains ...
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Lost Horizon, American fantasy film, released in 1937, that was directed by Frank Capra and based on James Hilton’s 1933 novel of the same name. The fictional land of Shangri-La, where the film is set, became a common reference for an earthly paradise.
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Ronald Colman played Robert Conway, a British diplomat who, along with a group of eclectic fellow passengers, is on an airplane that is highjacked. After crashing in a remote Tibetan area near a lamasery called Shangri-La, the travelers discover that they have landed in an actual paradise, where there is no war or crime and where people live for hundreds of years. While most of the passengers have no desire to leave, Robert’s brother, George, is desperate to return to England with Maria, one of Shangri-La’s residents. George eventually persuades Robert to depart, and the three head back to civilization. Tragedy results, however, as Maria returns to her actual age and dies, which causes George to jump off a cliff. Robert ultimately returns to Shangri-La.
Until Lost Horizon, Columbia Pictures was regarded as a “Poverty Row” studio, best known for its B-films. With the success of the film, however, Columbia gained parity with the other studios in terms of industry respect. Lost Horizon’s stunning sets and cinematography produced some of the most haunting images in film history. The movie was severely cut after its first preview. The painstaking restoration of the original version began in 1973 and was completed for the 1998 DVD, though some sequences had to be re-created with still photos. The version of the film released during World War II was called The Lost Horizon of Shangri-La and was amended to include anti-Japanese propaganda.
•Studio: Columbia Pictures
•Director and producer: Frank Capra
•Writer: Robert Riskin
•Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
•Ronald Colman (Robert Conway)
•Jane Wyatt (Sondra)
•Edward Everett Horton (Lovett)
•John Howard (George Conway)
•Thomas Mitchell (Henry Barnard)
•Margo (Maria)
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•Art direction*
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•Sound
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Vaill completed a film based on their research, "Finding Shangri-La", which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007. However, Michael McRae unearthed an obscure James Hilton interview from a New York Times gossip column in which he reveals that his cultural inspiration for Shangri-La, if it is anywhere, is more than 250 km north of Muli on the route travelled by Huc and Gabet.
Oct 23, 2023 · There have been several adaptations made on the movie and one of the best and most famous is Frank Capra’s 1937 film adaptation of the book which made the story more popular to more people.
Sep 8, 1998 · Found Horizon. By STEVE CHAWKINS. Sept. 8, 1998 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. Ever since Frank Capra made the 1937 film “Lost Horizon,” earnest wanderers have sought Shangri-La, the sun ...
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Synopsis Based on a novel by James Hilton, this fantastical drama follows a group of plane-crash survivors who have landed in the mythical Shangri-La, a valley hidden deep within the mountains of ...
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