" Lost Horizon " ( born Lost Horizon ) - a film directed by Frank Capra , released in 1937 . Screen version of the novel of the same name (1933) by James Hilton . The tape won an Oscar for the best work of the art director (Stephen Husson) and for the best montage (Gene Havlik, Jean Milford), as well as 5 nominations for this award in the following categories: best film, best male supporting role (G. B. Warner), best director assistant (Charles Coleman), best music recording (Morris Stoloff), best sound recording (John Laivadary). In 2016, the film was included in the National Register of films .
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| Genre | drama Adventure fantasy |
| Producer | Frank Capra |
| Producer | Frank Capra |
| Author script | Robert Riskin |
| In the main cast | Ronald colman Jane wyatt |
| Operator | Joseph walker |
| Composer | Dmitry Temkin |
| Film company | Columbia pictures |
| Duration | 132 min. |
| Budget | $ 2 million |
| A country |  |
| Tongue | English |
| Year | 1937 |
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Content
Story
During the riots in China, British diplomat Robert Conway evacuates his compatriots to safety in airplanes. He himself and his brother escaped on the last airplane; On board with them are representatives of different social groups - a paleontologist, a crook and a prostitute. Only in the morning they notice that they are flying not to the east - to Shanghai - but to the west, towards the mountains, and understand that they have been kidnapped. The journey ends with a crash in unexplored areas of Tibet , from which, it would seem, there is no way to get out and return to civilization. Suddenly, a group of local residents comes to the rescue of the Europeans, which takes them to a mystical land called Shangri-La ...
Cast
- Ronald Coleman - Robert Conway
- Jane Wyatt - Sondra Bizet
- G. B. Warner - Chan
- Sam Jaffe - The Supreme Lama
- John Howard - George Conway
- Edward Everett Horton - Alexander P. Lovett
- Thomas Mitchell - Henry Barnard
- Margot - Maria
- Isabel Jewell - Gloria Stone
Creation History
The film exceeded the budget by more than $ 776,000 and returned the investments after more than 5 years. The financial problems that have arisen at the Columbia Pictures studio violated the collaboration of Capra and the head of the studio, Harry Cohn, with screenwriter Robert Riskin, with whom Capra worked on many of his films.
In 1942, the film was re-released as "The Lost Horizon of Shangri-La" ( born The Lost Horizon of Shangri-La ). Robert Conway’s long drunken speech, in which he criticized diplomatic games and the war, was removed because the studio’s leadership was afraid that such feelings, expressed at the height of World War II , would be unpopular with the audience. Capra believed that the film had no meaning without this scene, and described the 12 minutes thrown as "vital."
In 1952, a 92-minute version of the film was released, aimed at minimizing the pro-communist sympathies that are guessed in the original film, and to limit sympathy for China, with which the US government became strained. The film was later lost, and in 1973 the American Film Institute began its restoration. The project was undertaken by UCLA Film in conjunction with the Television Archive and Columbia Pictures and took 13 years.
It was possible to restore all 132 minutes of the original soundtrack and 125 minutes of video. The missing seven minutes of the video were replaced with photos of actors and scenes taken during filming.
Releases
Columbia Tristar Home Video released a restored DVD release on August 31, 1999. The DVD includes additional material, including three deleted scenes, an additional ending, a commentary on the restoration of Charles Champlin and Robert Jitt, a photo and a documentary film about the history of the film Kendall Miller. On February 26, 2001, a DVD was released, including the same additional material and the original trailer.