Lost Horizon (1937 film)
1937 film by Frank Capra / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lost Horizon (re-released in 1942 as The Lost Horizon of Shangri-La) is a 1937 American adventure drama fantasy film directed by Frank Capra. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1933 novel of the same name by James Hilton.
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Directed by | Frank Capra |
Screenplay by | Robert Riskin |
Based on | Lost Horizon 1933 novel by James Hilton |
Produced by | Frank Capra |
Starring | Ronald Colman |
Cinematography | Joseph Walker Elmer Dyer |
Edited by | Gene Havlick Gene Milford |
Music by | Dimitri Tiomkin |
Color process | Black and white |
Production company | Columbia Pictures |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 132 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2 million[2] |
Box office | $3.5 million (U.S. and Canada rentals)[3][4] |
The film exceeded its original budget by more than $776,000 and took five years to earn back its cost. 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.[5][verification needed]
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".[6][7][8]