Lost Horizon
Summary:
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, hu... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Ronald Colman - (Robert Conway)
Edward Everett Horton - (Alexander P. Lovett)
H.B. Warner - (Chang)
Jane Wyatt - (Sondra)
Sam Jaffe - (High Lama)
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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 no... Continue >>
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