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 ...more
MPAA Rating: NR | Year: 1937 | Running Time: 134 minutes
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$13.99LOST HORIZON (1937)
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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 ...more
- 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
- Norman Ainsley
- Wryley Birch - Missionary
- Beatrice Blinn - Passenger
- George Chan - Chinese priest
- Beatrice Curtis
- Val Duran - Talu
- Willie Fung - Bandit leader
- Frank Capra - Director
- Frank Capra - Producer
- Robert Riskin - Screenwriter
- James Hilton - Book Author
- Ernest Dryden - Costume Designer
- C.C. Coleman - First Assistant Director
- Gene Havlick - Editor
- Gene Milford - Editor
- Dimitri Tiomkin - Composer (Music Score)
- Max Steiner - Musical Direction/Supervision
- Stephen Goosson - Production Designer
- Joseph Walker - Cinematographer
- Babs Johnstone - Set Designer
- Roy Davidson - Special Effects












