Lost Horizon (1937 film)

Lost Horizon is a 1937 American dramafantasy film directed by Frank Capra. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1933 novel of the same name by James Hilton.

Before returning to England to become the new Foreign Secretary, writer, soldier, and diplomat Robert Conway Ronald Colman has one last task in 1935 China to rescue 90 Westerners in the city of Baskul. He flies out with the last few evacuees, just ahead of armed revolutionaries.Unbeknownst to the passengers, the pilot has been replaced and their aircraft hijacked. It eventually runs out of fuel and crashes deep in the Himalayan Mountains, killing their abductor. The group is rescued by Chang H.B. Warner and his men and taken to ShangriLa, an idyllic valley sheltered from the bitter cold. The contented inhabitants are led by the mysterious High Lama Sam Jaffe. ........

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