He flies out with the last few evacuees, just ahead of armed revolutionaries. Before returning to Britain to become the new Foreign Secretary, writer, soldier, and diplomat Robert Conway has one last task in China, rescuing 90 westerners in the city of Baskul. In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The serious financial crisis it created for Columbia Pictures damaged the partnership between Capra and studio head Harry Cohn, as well as the friendship between Capra and Riskin. The film exceeded its original budget by more than $776,000 and took five years to earn back its cost. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1933 novel of the same name by James Hilton. Lost Horizon is a 1937 American adventure drama fantasy film directed by Frank Capra. Pictures of any aspects are available on request.$3.5 million (U.S. Otherwise very clean with a sound binding. A small stain on the front board in the middle towards the top. Scuff mark, more of a surface scratch is a better descrption, on the spine in the middle. The text block edges are darkened and more so on the head from dust soiling. One small stain on the tail margin of page 6, not affecting any text, and the end papers show light tanning on the margins. Mild wear to the spine tips with moderate wear to the upper joint on the front. Mild wear to the fore corners of the boards with moderate rubbing to the bottom fore corner of the front board. Facing page to the title page lists novels by James Hilton: "Catherine Herself", "And Now Goodbye", "Contango", "Knight Without Armour", and states "Printed in Great Britain by R. The two pages at the back are publisher's adverts, "New Macmillan Fiction, Autumn 1933" with 15 offerings listed. Original green cloth over boards with gilt lettering, title, author, publisher, on the spine. When reporters asked Franklin Roosevelt where the twin-engine B-25 bombers in which Jimmy Doolittle bombed Tokyo in early 1942 had come from, he replied "from Shangri-La." 277 pp. From 1973 to 1986 the American Film Institute worked to restore the film - now considered a classic - to its original running time, though seven minutes of soundtrack now play over production stills, as the footage for those segments was never recovered. Depression-era box office returns were so paltry that Columbia studio chief Harry Cohn then cut another 14 minutes in order to squeeze in more daily screenings. This Utopia closely resembles a film star's luxurious estate on Beverly Hills: flirtatious pursuits through grape arbours, splashings and divings in blossomy pools under improbable waterfalls, and rich and enormous meals." Filming (in various deserts and walk-in freezers) went over budget, and Capra's first cut ran six hours, though it was eventually released at 132 minutes. Greene added "Nothing reveals men's characters more than their Utopias. The 1937 Frank Capra film, which introduced most of the world to the idyllic pacifist paradise of "Shangri-La" in the high Himalayas, starred Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt (who Grahame Greene in "The Spectator" called "one of the dumber stars, who has read all the best books (this one included) and has the coy comradely manner of a not too advanced schoolmistress") along with Sam Jaffe as the High Lama. Original jacket, priced $2.50, is "very-good-minus" with chips to spine corners and some transfer of orange pigment to the rear panel. Small spot to cloth on rear cover (a cloth defect, not abuse), a fine copy in fine pictorial dust jacket (priced "7'6 / NET" at bottom of front flap) with a mild vertical crease to spine panel. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 570. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 419. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 45. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 812. "Among utopian scholars" LOST HORIZONS "has been generally neglected and characterized as an example of wishful thinking rather than a picture of what a possible utopian future might be like, but humanity's continuing search for peace, brotherhood, and long life makes it probable that it will continue to appeal as a popular novel." - Fortunati and Trousson, eds., Dictionary of Literary Utopias, pp. "LOST HORIZON is a novel that testifies to the extent of contemporary disillusionment, with hope for a better world having become a fragile, futile dream of seclusion. 1-281, original green cloth, spine panel stamped in gold.
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