Lost Horizon

Directed by Frank Capra
Starring Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, John Howard
1937

Lost Horizon (1937) is a timeless, widely-acclaimed classic - a romantic fantasy and science-fiction adventure film, produced and directed by Frank Capra for Columbia Pictures. The film was faithfully adapted by screenwriter Robert Riskin from James Hilton's best-selling 1933 novel of the same name. The story was inspired by real-life mountaineer George Leigh-Mallory, who was lost during a fatal climb of Mount Everest in 1924.

Lost Horizon is Frank Capra's greatest production! Mightiest of all motion pictures!

The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won two Oscars: Best Interior Decoration (Stephen Goosson) and Best Film Editing (Gene Havlick and Gene Milford). Its other nominations included: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (H. B. Warner), Best Sound Recording (John Livadary), Best Assistant Director (C. C. Coleman, Jr.) - a category that was discontinued after this year, and Best Score (Dimitri Tiomkin). The film was remade as a colorful, big-budget musical - Lost Horizon (1973), with Charles Boyer as the High Lama, Peter Finch as Robert Conway, John Gielgud as Chang, Olivia Hussey as Maria, and Michael York as George Conway, with music by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.