Lost Horizon (1937)




Ronald Colman, Sam Jaffe - Lost Horizon

 Margo, Ronald Colman - Lost Horizon

Edward Everett Horton, Isabel Jewell, John Howard, Ronald Colman, Thomas Mitchell - Lost Horizon


 Margo, John Howard - Lost Horizon

Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt - Lost Horizon




Ronald Colman as a young English diplomat who, along with a group of other passengers, survives a plane crash and stumbles across an idyllic Utopian community hidden away in the Himalayas in Tibet.


Books with substantial mentioning of Lost Horizon

Eric Smoodin
Regarding Frank Capra, Audience, Celebrity, and American Film Studies, 1930-1960
Durham and London, 2004

Andrew Sarris
"You ain't heard nothin' yet", the American talking film ; history & memory ; 1927 - 1949
New York, Oxford, 1998

Victor Scherle and William Turner Levy
The Complete Films of Frank Capra
New York - Secaucus, NJ, 1992

William K. Everson
Love in the Film
Secaucus, NJ, 1979

David Zinman
50 Classic Motion Pictures, The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
New York, 1970

Articles on Lost Horizon

Katarzyna Pisarska, The "Speaking Picture": Frank Capra's Adaptation of James Hilton's Lost Horizon, in: Artur Blaim, Ludmila Gruszewska-Blaim (eds.), Mediated utopias, Frankfort am Main; New York, 2015