Lost Horizon |
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Staring:
Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell
List Price: $14.99
Our Price: $8.35
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Product Description
Romantic adventures of a group of people kidnapped in India and taken to an idyllic civilization in the mountains surrounding China.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: UN
Release Date: 31-AUG-1999
Media Type: DVD
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James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon proposes a perfect hidden community within the uncharted Himalayas, a land where peace reigns and the inhabitants live for hundreds of years. So indelible is this mythical land that its name has entered the culture: Shangri-La. Director Frank Capra, riding high during his mid-'30s hot streak, spared no expense in creating Hilton's paradise onscreen, taxing the coffers of Columbia Pictures and the patience of mogul Harry Cohn. The results, however, are magical: shimmering, seductive, and maybe a bit foolish, truly the creation of an idealist (understandably, the spectacular art direction won an Oscar). And Capra's hero is an idealist, too. Ronald Colman, at his most marvelously elocutionary, plays a wise diplomat whose plane crashes in the snows of Tibet. He and the other survivors are guided to Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay. The young Jane Wyatt plays Colman's love interest, but leaving a more lasting impression are H.B. Warner, as the benevolent Chang, and Sam Jaffe, in great old-age makeup, as the wizened High Lama. This version has been restored as closely as possible to Capra's original cut; the film had circulated for many years in a trimmed form. Lost Horizon was remade, notoriously and hilariously, as a big-budget musical in 1973; it was a complete flop. --Robert Horton
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767821414
Format: Black & White, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 6305416222
Label: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 1999-08-31
Running Time: 134
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1937-09-01 |
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