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List Price: $27.95 Our Price: $24.99 You Save: $2.96 Features • Black & White • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 01 September, 1937 DVD Release : 31 August, 1999 |
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Lost Horizon description 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 i ... review details |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | a true cinema classic |
| Frank Capra's LOST HORIZON, based on the bestselling novel by James Hilton, is truly one of the milestones of modern fantasy cinema. The cast is impeccable, the sets inspired, and audience fascination for the material has only increased throughout the years. This DVD presents the film complete and restored to it's original 132 minute theatrical running-time.
British diplomat Robert Conway (Ronald Colman) and a group of planecrash survivors find salvation in Shangri-La, a utopian civilisation nestled in the Himalayan mountains. The peaceful mantra of the Shangri-La community soon wins over the jaded members of the rescued party, and Robert finds tender romance with Sondra (Jane Wyatt). But the peace is shattered by Robert's hostile brother George (John Howard), and his suspicious mind. LOST HORIZON is filled with wonderful performances. The planecrash survivors are played with great skill by Edward Everett Horton, Isabel Jewell and Thomas Mitchell; with a finely-understated and regal Sam Jaffe playing Shangri-La's mythical High Lama. H.B. Warner also has a great presence as Chang, and the seldom-remembered Margo Albert plays George's scheming girlfriend Maria. Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt's performances lie at the very heart of LOST HORIZON. Their romance provides the base from which the entire story pivots; and I can't think of a better actress to play the lovely Sondra than Jane Wyatt. She is absolute perfection here. LOST HORIZON has had a very checkered past. When originally released in 1937, it's running time was a hefty 132 minutes. That was quickly cut down to 118 minutes for it's General Release; and further trimmed to 108 minutes in certain prints. During World War II, LOST HORIZON was re-released as "Lost Horizon of Shangri-La", running 95 minutes with the opening titles changed to implicate Japan into the plot. TV prints were utilised from the WWII reissue, and the full-length version was never heard from again. This new DVD version presents the complete, uncut LOST HORIZON for the very first time since 1937. The UCLA Film and Television Archive spent 25 years researching, restoring and gathering all possible materials to introduce audiences to director Frank Capra's original vision. The final product is sensational, displaying the beautiful Art Deco designs of Stephen Goosson, the haunting score of Dimitri Tiomkin, and of course the tender performances of Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt. DVD extra features include newly-discovered deleted scenes, audio commentary by UCLA restorer Robert Gitt and film historian Charles Champlin, photo documentary narrated by film historian Kendall Miller, the alternate 1941 reissue titles, alternate ending, and restoration comparison. |
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