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Lost Horizon

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Lost Horizon
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NR,2hrs 14min
Genres:
Drama,Sci-Fi
Release:
1937
Director:
Frank Capra
Distributor:
Columbia TriStar
Starring:
Ronald Colman, Edward Everett Horton, H.B. Warner  ...more
Synopsis: It took British author James Hilton six weeks to write his visionary novel Lost Horizon. It took director Frank Capra two years-and half of his home studio Columbia's annual budget-to bring it to the screen. After a lengthy preamble, inviting audiences to imagine their own ideas of Utopia, the film opens on a chaotic scene at a Chinese airfield. As hordes of bandits approach, hundreds of refugees scramble to board the last plane out. Only five people make it: Mildly disenchanted Far Eastern diplomat ... Full Synopsis
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Bruce Eder, AMG Review
Frank Capra's Lost Horizon belongs to a genre that reached its heyday in the 1930s: the philosophical drama. Usually based on plays, films such as Street Scene, Death Takes A Holiday, On Borrowed Time and The Petrified Forest dealt with driving issues of the day and embraced weighty questions of life and death. Adapted from the novel by James Hilton, Lost Horizon proved more popular and enduring than ... Full Review
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Ronald Colman
Robert Conway
Edward Everett Horton
Alexander P. Lovett
H.B. Warner
Chang
Jane Wyatt
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