Lost Horizon (1937)

Lost Horizon is a 1937 American film directed by Frank Capra. The film stars Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt and Sam Jaffe. The film is based on the novel by James Hilton.Lost Horizon was again made into a film in 1973.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == A pilot decision to flee the unrest in China by during his work the plane where he are flying to hijack. However, he forgets to keep an eye on the fuel gauge and the plane crashes in the Himalayas. The pilot is, but the small group of occupants survived the accident. However, they are now completely isolated from the outside world.
 * 2 Cast
 * Background 3
 * 3.1 Production
 * 3.2 Lost scenes
 * 4 awards and nominations
 * 5 external links

The group is rescued by Chang and taken to Shangri-La, a Valley sheltered from the cold from the high mountains. The residents here are led by a mysterious High Lama.

Although the group first like wants to return to civilization as quickly as possible, more and more of the newcomers of the spot. Among them are the Academician Alexander Lovett, the charlatan Henry Barnard and terminally ill Gloria Stone who after her arrival in the Valley on miraculous way seems to cure it. The British diplomat Robert Conway is also absolutely love the place, especially after he meets Sondra, a woman who grew up in Shangri-La. Conway's younger brother, George, and Mary, another young resident, however, nothing the Valley and want to find as soon as possible.

Conway eventually discovered that the accident and their arrival in the Valley were no accident. He is brought to this place by the high Lama. The high Lama claims itself for hundreds of years old. The magical properties of the paradise created by him here have given him an exceptionally long life. However, now he feels his end approaching, and is looking for a wise man who can monitor him. Prefer someone with knowledge of the modern world.

George refuses to believe the story of the Lama. This allows Conway for choosing between loyalty and love. He eventually reluctantly chooses the side of his brother and the two leave together with Maria. For days they make an exhaustive tour through the snow. At one point succumbs Mary by the harsh conditions. When the brothers investigate her dead body, show them to have changed in a very old woman. Because she has left her body rapidly Shangri-La is out of date to the age that they actually should have had. When George sees the old Maria, he turns and jumps into a ravine.

Conway continues and eventually meets an expedition team that was searching for the plane wreckage and any survivors. However, by all the events he has his memories of Shangri-La lost. Only when he is back on the road to England times are back memories. He immediately makes u-turn. He hurries back to Shangri-La and accepts the offer of the high Lama. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == Ronald ColmanJane WyattEdward Everett HortonThomas Mitchell ==Background<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">According to film historian Kendall Miller in his documentary on the Lost Horizon DVD were the outdoor scenes at the monastery recorded on the Columbia Ranch in Burbank. It took one and a half months to build the necessary sets there. The exterior scenes in the Valley were included in Sherwood Forest (Westlake Village), North of Los Angeles. Only the waterfall scene is included in Palm Springs. The scenes in the snowy landscape were included in a dried up more South of the Mojave Desert. Some of the close-ups in the snow were included in a cold room so that one would see the breath of the actor, what the suggestion aroused that she really stood in a cold landscape.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film also used stock footage from earlier productions. Thus, the avalanche scene from a documentary. There were plans to include the movie in color, but because some of these inherited scenes in black and white were was decided the whole movie in black and white to record. ===Lost scenes<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After the premiere of the film's history, burned one of the Frank Capra film roles. The footage that the album is never restored and placed back into the film.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">As far as we know there is no complete edition of the film more in circulation. A few years after the premiere, a modified version of the film was made in which the apparently Communistthemes from the original version have been removed. This version was a total of 27 minutes shorter than the original version.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1970 the film was attempted, as much as possible, to restore in its original state. Many film archives were searched. The original film music was recovered, but a total of seven minutes of footage is still search.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The UCLA Film and Television Archive and Columbia Pictures have restored the film as much as possible. As a replacement for the missing scenes are some pictures added. Most recent video and DVD versions of the film contain a patched version that as good as possible to the original version. ==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="347" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==