Lost Horizon

Adapted from Hilton's novel and Frank Capra's classic film translation of 1937, this film was one of the bigger bombs at the box office in the 1970s. The picture opens with foreigners being evacuated by plane from a revolution in southeast Asia and crashing into the Himalayas. There they find Shangri-La. The production cost more than $7 million and returned only half of that to Columbia. During shooting the film was criticized by the Japanese-American Citizens League for casting Gielgud as an Oriental. Songs include "Lost Horizon" (sung by Shawn Phillips), "Share the Joy," "The World Is a Circle," "The Dance of the Fathers," "Living Together, Growing Together," "I ...