Lost Horizon poster
Director Frank Capra
Screenplay Sidney Buchman, Robert Riskin

Lost Horizon

Tagline: At last! The masterpiece of America's foremost film genius blazes to the screen!

Release Date: 1937-03-03

Duration: 132 minutes

Synopsis

British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.

Casting

  • H.B. Warner
    Chang
  • Ronald Colman
    Robert " Bob " Conway
  • Thomas Mitchell
    Henry Barnard
  • Jane Wyatt
    Sondra Bizet
  • Sam Jaffe
    High Lama
  • John Howard
    George Conway
  • Margo
    Maria
  • Edward Everett Horton
    Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
  • Richard Loo
    Shanghai Airport Official (uncredited)
  • Isabel Jewell
    Gloria Stone