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Lost Horizon
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0043396607637
Format: Black & White, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: June 28, 1994
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: September 01, 1937
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Editorial Review:
James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon proposes a perfect hidden community within the uncharted Himalayas, a land where peace reigns and the inhabitants live for hundreds of years. So indelible is this mythical land that its name has entered the culture: Shangri-La. Director Frank Capra, riding high during his mid-'30s hot streak, spared no expense in creating Hilton's paradise onscreen, taxing the coffers of Columbia Pictures and the patience of mogul Harry Cohn. The results, however, are magical: shimmering, seductive, and maybe a bit foolish, truly the creation of an idealist (understandably, the spectacular art direction won an Oscar). And Capra's hero is an idealist, too. Ronald Colman, at his most marvelously elocutionary, plays a wise diplomat whose plane crashes in the snows of Tibet. He and the other survivors are guided to Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay. The young Jane Wyatt plays Colman's love interest, but leaving a more lasting impression are H.B. Warner, as the benevolent Chang, and Sam Jaffe, in great old-age makeup, as the wizened High Lama. This version has been restored as closely as possible to Capra's original cut; the film had circulated for many years in a trimmed form. Lost Horizon was remade, notoriously and hilariously, as a big-budget musical in 1973; it was a complete flop. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Lost Horizon, a classic found
I had seen this movie when I was in school, we read the book and then watched the movie. I loved it then and I love it now. Thanks to the company who worked to restore it.
Rating:  - Should Have Stuck To The Book
This movie has badly transformed the original plot from a wonderful philosophical arguement into a romantic drama with minor characters of study replaced with romantic saps to satify the director and the audience. I wish they had stayed with book's plot which as always is infinitely better than any movie.
It's a pity that much of the film was lost or destroyed, only to be replaced with glaring ugly stills - which - given the sharp contrasts of black and white film, seem to frighten rather ... Read More
Rating:  - Hark back to Shangri-La
Do yourself and your family a favor and rent this brilliantly restored 1937 classic, based on James Hilton's 1933 novel, featuring the gallantry of Ronald Colman and the innocence of Jane Wyatt. This masterful suspense story of an airplane kidnapping and its eventual landing in the fictional city of Shangri-la in the Himalayas offers up timeless questions such as What is the meaning of life and How do we want to spend our time here on earth.
Eastern mystical philosophy is contrasted with the ... Read More
Rating: - Reconstructed Classic
"Lost Horizon", made at enormous expense by the famous Frank Capra in 1936, was based on a popular novel by James Hilton. It tells the story of a group of plane crash survivors who discover heaven on earth in Shangri-La, a word which entered the English language to mean a place of eternal happiness. The film has a timeless quality and Ronald Colman warmly fleshes out the leading character, a professional soldier and diplomat who has been summoned to Shangri-La to replace its dying leader the Hi-lama. Colman's ... Read More
Rating: - a true cinema classic
Frank Capra's LOST HORIZON, based on the bestselling novel by James Hilton, is truly one of the milestones of modern fantasy cinema. The cast is impeccable, the sets inspired, and audience fascination for the material has only increased throughout the years. This DVD presents the film complete and restored to it's original 132 minute theatrical running-time.
British diplomat Robert Conway (Ronald Colman) and a group of planecrash survivors find salvation in Shangri-La, a utopian civilisation nestled ... Read More
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