

Age Without Youth: Averted-you live long and age proportionately in Shangri-La.The 1973 film changes Sondra to Catherine, Gloria Stone to Sally Hughes, Henry Barnard to Sam Cornelius, and Alexander Lovett to Harry Lovett.Hugh Conway becomes in Robert Conway (1937) and Richard Conway (1973), and Mallinson becomes George Conway.Conway and the rest of the passengers are taken in by the lamasery, where they uncover a mystery. The pilot dies before he can explain himself, but shortly afterward the survivors are found by an expedition from a lamasery in the nearby valley of Shangri-La.

The plane runs out of fuel and crashes deep in the Himalayas along the border of China and Tibet. However, Conway and his charges soon discover that they have been hijacked by a person pretending to be their pilot. He and his brother George (John Howard) board the last plane out with a motley group that includes paleontologist Alexander Lovett (Edward Everett Horton), swindler Henry Barnard ( Thomas Mitchell), and Gloria (Isabel Jewell), a hooker with an Incurable Cough of Death. Chips fame), directed by Frank Capra and starring Ronald Colman.īritish diplomat, soldier, adventurer, writer, and proto- Indiana Jones hero Robert Conway (Colman) is sent off into a remote part of China to rescue a group of westerners caught in a war zone. Robert ultimately returns to Shangri-La.Lost Horizon is a 1937 film based on the novel of the same name by British author James Hilton (of Goodbye, Mr. Tragedy results, however, as Maria returns to her actual age and dies, which causes George to jump off a cliff. George eventually persuades Robert to depart, and the three head back to civilization. While most of the passengers have no desire to leave, Robert’s brother, George, is desperate to return to England with Maria, one of Shangri-La’s residents. After crashing in a remote Tibetan area near a lamasery called Shangri-La, the travelers discover that they have landed in an actual paradise, where there is no war or crime and where people live for hundreds of years. Ronald Colman played Robert Conway, a British diplomat who, along with a group of eclectic fellow passengers, is on an airplane that is highjacked. The fictional land of Shangri-La, where the film is set, became a common reference for an earthly paradise. Lost Horizon, American fantasy film, released in 1937, that was directed by Frank Capra and based on James Hilton’s 1933 novel of the same name.

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