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Lost Horizon is a 1933 fantasy novel about a British consul who discovers a hidden utopia in Tibet. The novel introduced the concept of Shangri-La, a fictional lamasery with modern conveniences and a mysterious High Lama.
A classic adventure fantasy film directed by Frank Capra, based on James Hilton's novel about a mysterious valley in the Himalayas. The film stars Ronald Colman as Robert Conway, who is abducted, rescued, and chosen to be the successor of the High Lama of Shangri-La.
Lost Horizon, novel by James Hilton, published in 1933. Hugh Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic service, finds inner peace, love, and a sense of purpose in Shangri-La, a utopian lamasery high in the Himalayas in Tibet.
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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.
- (15K)
- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
- Frank Capra
- 1937-09-01
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.
- (2.9K)
- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
- Charles Jarrott
- 1973-03-17
James Hilton’s bestselling adventure novel about a military man who stumbles on the world’s greatest hope for peace deep in Tibet: Shangri-La. Hugh Conway saw humanity at its worst while fighting in the trenches of the First World War.
On 10 March 1935, the pacifist British diplomat and future Foreign Secretary Robert Conway helps a group of ninety Westerns white people to escape from the Chinese city of Baskul after the beginning of a revolution.
