Lost Horizon (1973 film)

Lost Horizon is a 1973 American musical film directed by Charles Jarrott and starring Peter Finch, John Gielgud, Liv Ullmann, Michael York, Sally Kellerman, Bobby Van, George Kennedy, Olivia Hussey, James Shigeta and Charles Boyer.

This version is much closer to the 1937 film than to the original James Hilton novel. It tells the story of a group of travellers whose airplane is hijacked while fleeing a bloody revolution. The airplane crash lands in an unexplored area of the Himalayas, where the party is rescued and taken to the lamasery of ShangriLa. Miraculously, ShangriLa, sheltered by mountains on all sides, is a temperate paradise amid the land of snows. Perfect health is the norm, and inhabitants live to very old age while maintaining a youthful appearance.The newcomers quickly adjust, especially Richard Conway Peter Finch, the groups leader. He falls in love with Catherine Liv Ullmann, a school teacher. Sally Hughes Sally Kellerman, a drugaddicted Newsweek photographer, is suicidal at first, but begins counselling with lamas Chang John Gielgud and To Len James Shigeta and finds inner peace. Sam Cornelius George Kennedy discovers gold, but Sally convinces him to use his engineering skills to bring better irrigation to the farmers of ShangriLa instead of attempting to smuggle out the gold. Harry Lovett Bobby Van is a thirdrate comic and song and dance man who has a flair for working with the children of ShangriLa. ........

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