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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 earn back its cost.
- $2 million
- Dimitri Tiomkin
- Frank Capra
- Ronald Colman
Mar 17, 1973 · Lost Horizon: Directed by Charles Jarrott. With Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Sally Kellerman, George Kennedy. While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon, Shangri-La.
- Charles Jarrott
- 1
- 4 min
With Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard. When a revered diplomat's plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay.
- (14K)
- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
- Frank Capra
- 1937-09-01
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Plot. The DC3 of a group of travellers is hijacked while fleeing a bloody revolution. The aeroplane crash lands in an unexplored area of the Himalayas, where the party is rescued and taken to the lamasery of Shangri-La. Miraculously, Shangri-La, [a] sheltered by mountains on all sides, is a temperate paradise amid the land of snows.
- $5.9 million
- Burt Bacharach
- March 17, 1973
- Ross Hunter
Mar 27, 2021 · Lost Horizon (1937) 03/27/2021 | 2h 6m 55s |. My List. A plane crash in the Himalayas delivers a diplomat (Ronald Colman) and a group of survivors to the secluded land of Shangri-La – but is...
- 127 min
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. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on.
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 the...
