![]() ![]() But Capra overran the budget by a considerable margin. The film was set in the Himalayas and had the largest (up to that time) production budget. It was then fashioned by the popular Hollywood director-screenwriter team of Frank Capra and Robert Riskin into what became a classic.Īctually, the film was not immediately a hit and ran into problems early on. The story of the film was based on the best-selling 1933 novel of the same name by James Hilton. ![]() Although it is not without some limitations, the film provides an eloquent narrative expression of two key cultural metaphors – the search for the ideal, harmonious society and our all-too-often failures to hold onto the truly miraculous things that we stumble upon in life. ![]() Lost Horizon (1937) is a film that probably everyone should see at some point. ![]()
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