Lost Horizon (1937)
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Reviews Counted: 10
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 0
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Release Date: Sep 1, 1937 Wide
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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
Sep 1, 1937 Wide
Aug 31, 1999
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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Cast
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Ronald Colman
Robert Conway -
Edward Everett Horton
Alexander P. Lovett -
H.B. Warner
Chang -
Jane Wyatt
Sondra -
Sam Jaffe
High Lama -
John Howard
George Conway -
Margo
Maria -
Thomas Mitchell
Henry Barnard -
Isabel Jewell
Gloria Stone -
Hugh Buckler
Lord Gainsford -
David Torrence
Prime Minister -
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Wryley Birch
Missionary -
Beatrice Blinn
Passenger -
John Burton
Wynant -
George Chan
Chinese priest -
Chief John Big Tree
Porter -
David Clyde
Steward -
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Denis D'Auburn
Aviator -
Val Duran
Talu -
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Willie Fung
Bandit leader -
Lawrence Grant
1st Man -
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Jeremy Irons Sr.
Assistant Foreign Secre... -
Boyd Irwin
Assistant Foreign Secre... -
Noble Johnson
Leader of porters -
Richard Loo
Shanghai Airport offici... -
Margaret McWade
Missionary -
John Miltern
Carstairs -
Henry Mowbray
Englishman -
Leonard Mudie
Senior Foreign Secretar... -
John T. Murray
Meeker -
Wedgewood Nowell
Englishman -
Milton A. Owen
Fenner -
Max Rabinowitz
Seiveking -
Arthur Rankin
Passenger -
Ruth Robinson
Missionary -
Carl Stockdale
Missionary -
John Tettener
Montaigne -
Eric Wilton
Englishman -
Victor Wong
Bandit leader -
Mary Lou Dix
Passenger
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All Critics (13) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (0) | DVD (9)
Capra's most challenging film is both naive and pleasantly uplifting.
Boasting great production values, Frank Capra's film is still one of the most cherished fables made during the Depression era.
Classic Capra fantasy. Not wholly successful, but essential viewing.
...could be seen by first-time viewers as hopelessly old fashioned, but given a chance it holds up remarkably well.
Lost Horizon (1937) is a timeless, widely-acclaimed classic romantic fantasy film that was directed by Frank Capra.
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- Lost Horizon (DE)
- Lost Horizon (1937) (UK)


I think the story Gainesburg tells at the end would make a better movie than this one.