Lost Horizon (1937)
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| Directed by | Frank Capra |
| Produced by | Frank Capra |
| Screenplay by | Robert Riskin |
| Based on |
Lost Horizon 1933 novel by James Hilton |
| Starring |
Ronald Colman Jane Wyatt Sam Jaffe John Howard H.B. Warner |
| Music by | Dimitri Tiomkin |
| Cinematography |
Joseph Walker Elmer Dyer |
| Edited by |
Gene Havlick Gene Milford |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time
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132 minutes 210 minutes (original cut) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2 million |
Lost Horizon is a 1937 American 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 it took five years for it to earn back its cost. The serious financial crisis it created for Columbia Pictures damaged the partnership between Capra and studio head Harry Cohn, as well as the friendship between Capra and screenwriter Riskin, whose previous collaborations had included Lady for a Day, It Happened One Night, and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.
In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
It is 1935. Before returning to England to become the new Foreign Secretary, writer, soldier, and diplomat Robert Conway (Ronald Colman) has one last task in China: to rescue 90 white Westerners in the city of Baskul. He flies out with the last few evacuees, just ahead of armed revolutionaries.
Unbeknownst to the passengers, the pilot has been replaced and their aircraft hijacked. It eventually runs out of fuel and crashes deep in the Himalayan Mountains, killing their abductor. The group is rescued by Chang (H.B. Warner) and his men and taken to Shangri-La, an idyllic valley sheltered from the bitter cold. The contented inhabitants are led by the mysterious High Lama (Sam Jaffe).
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