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Lost Horizon (re-released in 1942 as The Lost Horizon of Shangri-La) 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 .
Lost Horizon is a 1933 novel by English writer James Hilton. The book was turned into a film, also called Lost Horizon, in 1937 by director Frank Capra and a lavish musical remake in 1973 by producer Ross Hunter with music by Burt Bacharach. It is the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery located high in the mountains of Tibet.
Shangri-La is a fictional place in Tibet's Kunlun Mountains, [1] described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by English author James Hilton. Hilton portrays Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery , enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. [ 1 ]
The aeroplane crash-lands in an unexplored area of the Himalayas, where the party is rescued and taken to the lamasery of Shangri-La. Miraculously, Shangri-La, [a] 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 ...
Shangri-La is a musical with a book and lyrics by James Hilton, Jerome Lawrence, and Robert E. Lee and music by Harry Warren. [1]Based on Hilton's classic 1933 novel Lost Horizon, it focuses on Hugh Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic service, who stumbles across a utopian lamasery high in the Himalayas in Tibet after surviving a plane crash in the mountainous terrain.
The term comes from "Shangri-La" as the hidden valley of delight in James Hilton's 1933 novel Lost Horizon.The term "Shangri-La," especially in the 1930s and 1940s, was slang for heaven or paradise, [1] and the song is about the joy of being in love.
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This category is for films financed by Steve Bing and his Shangri-La business conglomerate. Pages in category "Shangri-La Entertainment films" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.