Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon (1937)

  • 100% of critics liked it
    (10 reviews)

  • 78% of users liked it
    (5,298 ratings)

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… More

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In Theaters
Sep 1, 1937 Wide
On DVD
Aug 31, 1999
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Capra's most challenging film is both naive and pleasantly uplifting.

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    Boasting great production values, Frank Capra's film is still one of the most cherished fables made during the Depression era.

  • Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

    Classic Capra fantasy. Not wholly successful, but essential viewing.

  • Tim Dirks, Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films

    Lost Horizon (1937) is a timeless, widely-acclaimed classic romantic fantasy film that was directed by Frank Capra.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • 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

  • 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

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