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• Ken S

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

• AJ V

  
  This is my favourtie movie of 1937. It's long, but it's worth it. It has a great story of a group of people who get stranded on an island and discover it's a utopia. I love it.

• Michael G

  
  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… More
  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. Picture 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.

• Steve K

  
  An absolute classic.

• Matthew Y

  
  Frank Capra has always been about one thing and one thing only "happiness". Characters who are happy with themselves, find happiness or share their happiness with others no matter what anyone else thinks or feels about them. Lost Horizon is about the happiest place on… More
  Frank Capra has always been about one thing and one thing only "happiness". Characters who are happy with themselves, find happiness or share their happiness with others no matter what anyone else thinks or feels about them. Lost Horizon is about the happiest place on Earth Shangri-La. A Utopia where man can live ageless forever and live in peace and ever-loving bliss till the end of time. When some new and skeptical arrivals come under very strange circumstances Shangri-La is viewed doubtfully and as "too good to be true". Gradually we see changes in the characters as they adapt and accept this paradise. Is it really all that it's cracked up to be? Is there a hidden and dark secret of Shagri-La? Mankind's questioning nature and fact vs. faith beliefs are challenged in this light-hearted yet deceptively deep film from a cinematic legend. FYI: The film still has "lost" segments to it. The most complete version I saw had a vintage sound real but not enough filmed footage to coincide with it. For the missing sequences still images of the scenes are shown on screen to give the best visual presentation possible. It is a little jarring at first but most of this occurs early on and once you're 30-45 minutes into the film I think you're good to go.

• Lesley N

  
  Conway, kidnapped by Chang after a plane crash, is taken to a Tibetan Mountain Utopia where there's food for all, long life, unlimited gold, simplistic morality and refined British accents. But will he be persuaded to stay or will he go?. CONWAY You have no disputes over… More
  Conway, kidnapped by Chang after a plane crash, is taken to a Tibetan Mountain Utopia where there's food for all, long life, unlimited gold, simplistic morality and refined British accents. But will he be persuaded to stay or will he go?. CONWAY You have no disputes over women? CHANG Only very rarely. You see, it would not be considered good manners to take a woman that another man wanted. CONWAY Suppose somebody wanted her so badly that he didn't give a hang if it was good manners or not? CHANG Well, in that event, it would be good manners on the part of the other man to let him have her.

• Henrik S

  
  A botched Capra that just goes on and on withou any story or character developmemt. The whole film revolves around one character and the decision he has to make, which is not enough to keep me interested, especially when there are no plot twists, no antagonists, no suspense and so… More
  A botched Capra that just goes on and on withou any story or character developmemt. The whole film revolves around one character and the decision he has to make, which is not enough to keep me interested, especially when there are no plot twists, no antagonists, no suspense and so forth. What is this ? Its not really a movie. Leave it be.

• Anastasia B

  
  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 sense… More
  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 sense 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).

• Marion R

  
  This is a fantastical movie, if you can believe the premise, it just a entertaining film.

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