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Lost Horizon 1937

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 97 min

genre: adventure

theme: romantic fantasy

director: Andrew Marton

Score: 6 / 10

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

Plot

It is 1935. Before returning to England to become the new Foreign Secretary, writer, soldier, and diplomat Robert Conway (Ronald Colman) has one last task in China: Rescue 90 westerners in the city of Baskul. He flies out with the last few evacuees, just ahead of armed revolutionaries.

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author	James Hilton Robert Riskin
award	Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Production Design National Film Registry
contentLocation	China
director	Andrew Marton Frank Capra
editor	Gene Havlick Gene Milford
genre	adventure drama fantasy
keywords	armed revolutionaries communist party of china foreign secretary hijack himalaya horrify kill lama old man out of fuel paleontologist paleontology remember rescue search party secretary of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs shangri-la shelter write young woman
musicBy	Dimitri Tiomkin
nomination	Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Production Design Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
producer	Frank Capra
productionCompany	Columbia Pictures
publisher	Columbia Pictures
recordedAt	California
theme	romantic fantasy utopian