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1 September 1937 (USA)
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Millions to make it ! . . . Two years in production ! . . . The best seller that set a new style in romance floods the screen with splendor and drama surpassing Frank Capra's greatest past achievements. "Mr Deeds" and "It Happened One Night". more
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A plane crash delivers a group of people to the secluded land of Shangri-La -- but is it the miraculous utopia it appears to be? full summary | add synopsis
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Won 2 Oscars.
Another 5 nominations
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Tibetan Film Speaks for Itself
(From PasteMagazine. 14 April 2009, 1:46 PM, PDT)
Actress Jane Wyatt Dies at 96
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 23 October 2006)
(From PasteMagazine. 14 April 2009, 1:46 PM, PDT)
Actress Jane Wyatt Dies at 96
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 23 October 2006)
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Ronald Colman | ... | Robert Conway | |
| Jane Wyatt | ... | Sondra | |
| Edward Everett Horton | ... | Lovett | |
| John Howard | ... | George Conway | |
| Thomas Mitchell | ... | Barnard | |
| Margo | ... | Maria | |
| Isabel Jewell | ... | Gloria | |
| H.B. Warner | ... | Chang | |
| Sam Jaffe | ... | High Lama |
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Lost Horizon of Shangri-La (USA) (reissue title)
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Runtime:
132 min (original version) | USA:95 min (TV version) | USA:118 min (general release version) | West Germany:97 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)
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Argentina:Atp |
West Germany:12 |
Finland:K-16 |
Portugal:M/12 |
UK:U |
USA:Approved (PCA #2061) |
Norway:7 (original rating) |
Australia:PG
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Frank Capra hated screen tests; scripts were developed with specific actors in mind. Ronald Colman was first choice to play Conway from the very beginning. It was only over who should play the High Lama that he had problems and had to resort to screen tests.
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Revealing mistakes: When Bob is entering Shangri-La, he is going down a mountain "upon which no man has ever set foot" but there are footprints in the snow in the foreground of the shot.
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Quotes:
Lord Gainsford:
Gentlemen, I give you a toast. Here's my hope that Robert Conway will find his Shangri-La. Here's my hope that we all find our Shangri-La.
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Referenced in "Are You Being Served?: Closed Circuit (#8.6)" (1981)
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Soundtrack:
Wiegenlied (Brahms' Lullaby), Op. 49, No. 4
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British diplomat Ronald Colman and brother John Howard crash a plane with several civilians including Thomas Mitchell deep in the Himalayas and find Shangri-La. The place is literally heaven on Earth, but is it really what it seems? H.B. Warner received an Oscar nomination as the man who runs the beautiful but strange place. Frank Capra's film is really a bit dark and disturbing compared to his other famous ventures. Light-hearted in many ways, but filled with strange undertones and images, "Lost Horizon" is one of those odd films from the late-1930s that conveys some deep messages in unconventional ways. The case could be made about the film's support for communism due to several of the sequences. Good and definitely interesting, "Lost Horizon" remains one of Capra's lesser-known films that still packs a punch 65 years later. 4 stars out of 5.