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Lost Horizon (1937)

Lost Horizon is a 1937 film in which a group of travelers find a utopian society in the Himalayan mountains. The film is based upon the James Hilton novel of the same name. It stars Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, John Howard, Margo , Thomas Mitchell, Edward Everett Horton, Isabel Jewell, H.B. Warner, and Sam Jaffe.

The film was adapted by Sidney Buchman (uncredited) and Robert Riskin , and directed by Frank Capra. The Streamline Moderne sets were by Stephen Goosson.

It was remade as a musical in 1973, in which Shangri-La was strangely reminiscient of Gilligan's Island.

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