Edward Everett Horton, H.B. Warner, Isabel Jewell

The story of an enchanted paradise of Shangri-La where time stands still.

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Unrated, 2 hrs. 12 min.

Directed by: Frank Capra

Release Date: September 1, 1937

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DVD Release Date: August 31, 1999

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  • April 3, 2009
    It's easy to forget that Lost Horizon is a Frank Capra movie. It has very little of the concentrated feel good quality that most of his other movies have. It's definitely a good movie but definitely not his defining work. Sam Jaffe was incredibly frightening as the High Lama. Pic...( read more)ture Mason Verger from Hannibal raping Yoda and this guy would be the baby. I don't like how the story seemed to get rushed in the last 15 minutes and just left at that or how some of the more major characters were just kind of cut short with hushed resolution. Even if the movie was fully restored I don't think that could save it. Don't get me wrong, Lost Horizon is still a good movie, just not quintessential Capra.
  • June 24, 2007
    An absolute classic.
  • November 3, 2009
    The more I see of Capra, the more I like him. This movie is not the typical comic Capra. I wish the lost parts of this film were available to us, so that we could see his whole vision as he wanted it. You can feel his brilliance in the chaotic, early scenes and their arresting se...( read more)nse of danger (the generous budget enabled Capra to use large crowds, and he makes the most of them). Rarely, on screen, have large numbers of human beings, whether screaming, shooting or pushing, seemed so frightening. The trip with the airplane: masterful exposition here, so well done that one can scarcely find fault. The scenes of refueling in a remote village are electrifying, and one isn't sure at first what's going on. Are they being attacked? No, but it takes a while to figure this out. The soaring over the clouds is mesmerizing in its simple beauty; while the crash-landing of the plane at what appears to be the foot of the mountain that leads eventually to Shangri La, is highly effective. And Capra, ever the master of film climate, offers us, briefly, a quite pretty and at the same time literally chilling sense of what it would be like to die, snowbound, in the Himalayas. (re-written here with thanks to telegonus).
  • November 16, 2009
    Recommended by Liesebieke.
  • November 16, 2009
    One of the better old classics I've watched lately. The story, based on a novel, was very entertaining, even though it had a few stills instead of moving pictures in it, due to the fact that some minutes of the original camera recordings didn't survive the test of time. This didn...( read more)'t irritate me at all because the soundtrack was still available. Great plot and very well-made (although the plane crash was laughable).
  • October 25, 2009
    cette film me plait beaucoup
  • July 8, 2009
    I wonder what happened to those other characters because it seems they were brushed off. Epic story and it didn't seem as long as it was.
  • April 23, 2009
    Interesting, but it lacks much of the enlightened thing.
  • October 17, 2008
    No thankyou - Not interested
  • July 9, 2008
    nominated for best picture at the oscars

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