Lost Horizon

Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt star in this lavishly-produced classic about the enchanted paradise of Shangri-La where time stands still. After nearly 50 years, Frank Capra's timeless masterpiece, LOST HORIZON (based on the best-selling novel by James Hilton) was restored to it's original length of 132 minutes in 1986. The film, which was widely circulated among the armed services during World War II, was cut 22 minutes after it's initial release in 1937 to reflect the wartime perception of the Chinese and to tone down the film's pacifism. Film historian Robert Gitt conducted nearly 13 years of detective work tracking down the lost footage. With extraordinary art direction, the set of Shangri-La is considered the largest ever built in Hollywood, winning designer Stephan Goosson an Academy Award(r) (LOST HORIZON won two 1937 Academy Awards(r): Art Direction-Set Design and Film Editing). Furthermore, the budget for the picture was staggering and cost almost four times the amount of any Columbia film at the time; an equivalent cost of approximately $30-$40 million today. A box office blockbuster, LOST HORIZON is considered an exception among Capra's work for it's deviation from his usual upbeat "American" theme and continues to capture the imagination of the viewing public today.

Director: Frank Capra
Producer: Frank Capra
Actor: Ronald Colman
Actor: Jane Wyatt
Actor: Edward Everett Horton
Actor: John Howard
Actor: Thomas Mitchell
Actor: Margo
Actor: H. B. Warner
Actor: Sam Jaffe
Actor: H.B. Warner
Actor: Boyd Irwin
Actor: Chief John Big Tree
Actor: Denis D'Auburn
Actor: Jeremy Irons Sr.
Actor: John Miltern
Actor: John Tettener
Actor: Mary Lou Dix
Actor: Milton A. Owen
Actor: The Hall Johnson Choir
Actor: Wedgewood Nowell
Actor: Wryley Birch
Actor: Isabel Jewell
Actor: David Torrence
Actor: Hugh Buckler
Actor: Val Duran
Actor: Richard Loo
Actor: Willie Fung
Actor: Victor Wong
Actor: John Burton
Actor: John T. Murray
Actor: Noble Johnson
Actor: Matthew Carlton
Actor: Margaret McWade
Actor: Ruth Robinson
Actor: Carl Stockdale
Actor: Wyrley Birch
Actor: Max Rabinowitz
Actor: Boyd Irwin Sr.
Actor: Leonard Mudie
Actor: Neil Fitzgerald
Actor: Beatrice Curtis
Actor: Beatrice Blinn
Actor: Arthur Rankin
Actor: Norman Ainsley
Actor: David Clyde
Actor: George Chan
Actor: Eric Wilton
Actor: Henry Mowbray
Actor: Wedgwood Nowell
Actor: Richard Robles
Actor: Chief Big Tree
Actor: Sonny Bupp
Actor: Lawrence Grant