Lost Horizon

Year:

1937

Duration:

132 min (original version) | USA:95 min (TV version) | USA:118 min (general release version) | West Germany:97 min | 132 min (restored version)

Genres:

Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery

IMDB rate:

7.9

Director:

Frank Capra

Awards:

Won 2 Oscars. Another 5 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1937-09-01

Filming Locations: Bronson Caves, Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Chief John Big Tree

Lost Horizon

Margo

Lost Horizon

Ronald Colman

Robert Conway

Jane Wyatt

Sondra

Edward Everett Horton

Lovett

John Howard

George Conway

Thomas Mitchell

Barnard

Isabel Jewell

Gloria

H.B. Warner

Chang

Sam Jaffe

High Lama

Norman Ainsley

Embassy Club Steward (uncredited)

Wyrley Birch

Missionary (uncredited)

Beatrice Blinn

Passenger (uncredited)

Hugh Buckler

Lord Gainsford (uncredited)

Sonny Bupp

Boy Being Carried to Plane (unconfirmed) (uncredited)

John Burton

Wynant (uncredited)

Tom Campbell

Porter

Matthew Carlton

Pottery Maker (uncredited)

Eli Casey

Porter

David Cavendish

First Pilot (uncredited)

George Chan

Chinese Priest (uncredited)

Darby Clark

Radio Operator (uncredited)

David Clyde

Embassy Club Steward (uncredited)

Robert Cory

Englishman

Beatrice Curtis

Passenger (uncredited)

Jack Deery

Englishman

Mary Lou Dix

Passenger (uncredited)

Val Duran

Talu - Hijacking Pilot (uncredited)

Neil Fitzgerald

Radio Operator (uncredited)

Willie Fung

Bandit Leader at Fuel Stop-over (uncredited)

Moning Gonzales

Porter

Lawrence Grant

First Man (uncredited)

Antonion Herrera

Porter

Joe Herrera

Candle Maker (uncredited)

Glenn Howard

Porter

Boyd Irwin

Assistant Foreign Secretary (uncredited)

Noble Johnson

Leader of Porters on Return Journey (uncredited)

Manual Kalili

Servant (uncredited)

George Kaluna

Porter

Harold Lishman

Porter

Richard Loo

Shanghai Airport Official (uncredited)

Robert Lugo

Porter

Richard Master

Servant (uncredited)

Margaret McWade

Missionary (uncredited)

John Miltern

Carstairs - Man at Club (uncredited)

Ray Mitchell

Undetermined Role (uncredited)

Joe Molina

Porter

Henry Mowbray

Englishman

Leonard Mudie

Foreign Secretary with Prime Minister (uncredited)

John T. Murray

Meeker (uncredited)

Wedgwood Nowell

Englishman

Milton Owen

Fenner (uncredited)

Arthur Rankin

Passenger (uncredited)

Ruth Robinson

Missionary (uncredited)

Richard Robles

Porter

Alex Shoulder

Servant (uncredited)

Joe Shoulder

Porter

James Smith

Porter

Carl Stockdale

Missionary (uncredited)

John Tettener

Montaigne (uncredited)

Ed Thorpe

Porter

David Torrence

Prime Minister (uncredited)

Eric Wilton

Englishman

Barry Winton

Englishman

Victor Wong

Bandit Leader (uncredited)

Ernesto Zambrano

Servant (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

John Howard was tested for his part two days before production began. David Niven and Louis Hayward had both already tested for the role.

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"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on September 15, 1941 with Ronald Colman reprising his film role.

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Jane Wyatt, "Sondra", stated that the deletion of the High Lama's speech about peace, during Robert's first meeting with Father Pero ( Sam Jaffe) was done so at the request of the US government because.of the films release in the looming shadows of WW2. Ms. Wyatt stated they wanted no views of world peace so that young men would be in the "bang, bang, bang" mode. (available on the movie's recovered sound track & pieced into the re-release with these corrections) Ms. Wyatt, during the administration of president Franklin Roosevelt, was requested by them to arrange the performance of the Bolshoi Ballet during the war. This resulted with her being blackballed during the Senator Joe McCarthy era castigation of American citizens, who were supposedly "Red" (Communists) and not "true" citizens.

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Goofs

The plane comes to rest with the fuselage in the air, but is half buried when everyone gets out.

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Echoing the words of the critic, James Agate: 'The best film I've seen for ages, but will somebody please tell me how they got the grand piano along a footpath on which only one person can walk at a time with rope and pickaxe and with a sheer drop of three thousand feet or so?'

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After George falls and dies, we see Bob picking his way across the wind-swept snow poking at it with his staff to make sure of his next step. He is obviously wearing a hat with a brim. In the very next scene, just before Bob falls, we see he is wearing his hooded parka again.

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Quotes

Alexander P. 'Lovey' Lovett: Conway, I don't like this place! It's too mysterious!

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Book Pages: In these days of wars and rumors of wars - haven't you ever dreamed of a place where there was peace and security, where living was not a struggle but a lasting delight? / Of course you have. So has every man since time began. Always the same dream. Sometimes he calls it Utopia - Sometimes the Fountain of Youth - Sometimes merely "that little chicken farm." / One man had such a dream and saw it come true. He was Robert Conway - England's "Man of the East" - soldier, diplomat, public hero. / Our story starts in the war-torn Chinese city of Baskul, where Robert Conway has been sent to evacuate ninety white people before they are butchered in a local revolution. / Baskul - the night of March 10, 1935. Is this interesting? Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Alexander P. 'Lovey' Lovett: [seeing banquet spread] Well I, I just feel as though I'm being made ready for the executioner.

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Chang: There is a tribe of porters some 500 miles from here. That is our only contact with the outside world. Every now and again, depending on favorable weather of course, they make the journey.

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Faq

Q

Is the version usually seen faithful to the director's intentions?

A

The version described here has been drastically cut from its original 132 minute length, its anti-war stance excised completely by the US Military during World War II. In 1986, a partial restoration using an original soundtrack, filled out with salvaged clips and a few still pictures of the production, was released by the American Film Institute, using modern technology to restore as much of the original film quality as possible, adding considerable depth to the romantic relationships of the two main characters and greatly improving the continuity of the film.

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