Running time 150 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $12 million Box office $3,800,000 (US/ Canada rentals) Lost Horizon is a 1973 American directed by and starring, and. The film is a of 's, with a screenplay.
Both the 1937 version and this one adapted their story from 's novel. Lost Horizon was not a critical or commercial success at the time of release, nor has its reputation improved since. It was selected for inclusion in the book, co-written by critic, and is listed in founder book as one of The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made. This was the final film produced. Contents.
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Synopsis This version is much closer to the 1937 film than to the original James Hilton novel. It tells the story of a group of travellers whose aeroplane is hijacked while fleeing a bloody revolution. The aeroplane crash lands in an unexplored area of the, where the party is rescued and taken to the lamasery of. Miraculously, Shangri-La, sheltered by mountains on all sides, is a temperate paradise amid the land of snows. Perfect health is the norm, and inhabitants live to very old age while maintaining a youthful appearance. The newcomers quickly adjust, especially Richard Conway , the group's leader. He falls in love with Catherine , a school teacher.
Sally Hughes , a drug-addicted photographer, is suicidal at first, but begins counselling with lamas Chang and To Len and finds inner peace. Sam Cornelius discovers gold, but Sally convinces him to use his engineering skills to bring better irrigation to the farmers of Shangri-La instead of attempting to smuggle out the gold. Harry Lovett is a third-rate comic and man who has a flair for working with the children of Shangri-La. Everyone is content to stay except Conway's younger brother, George. George has fallen in love with Maria , a dancer, and wants to take her along when he leaves. Chang warns Richard that Maria came to Shangri-La over eighty years before, at the age of twenty. If she were to leave the valley, she would revert to her actual age.
Richard is summoned to meet the High Lama , who informs him that he was brought there for a reason, to succeed him as the leader of the community. However, on the night that the High Lama dies, George and Maria insist to Richard that everything the High Lama and Chang have said is a lie. They convince him to leave immediately. Still in shock from the High Lama's death, Richard leaves without even saying goodbye to Catherine.
Not long after their departure, Maria suddenly ages and dies, and George falls to his death down an icy ravine. Richard struggles on alone, ending up in a hospital bed in the Himalayan foothills. He runs away, back to the mountains, and miraculously finds the portal to Shangri-La once more. Cast. as Richard Conway. as Catherine.
as Sally Hughes. as Sam Cornelius. as George Conway.
as Maria. as Harry Lovett. as Brother To-Lenn.
as The High Lama. as Chang. as Bill Fergunson. as Dr.
Verden. Larry Duran as Asian Pilot. as Nurse. as Col.
Rawley Critical reception Lost Horizon is considered one of the last in a string of box office musical failures which came in the wake of the success of. Attempts to update the idea of with its racial inequalities intact, coupled with old-fashioned songs effectively sealed its fate according to film critic. She noted that Shangri-La was depicted as: a middle-class geriatric where. You can live indefinitely, lounging and puttering about for hundreds of years. The are kept in their places, and no blacks. Are among the residents.
There's probably no way to rethink this material without throwing it all away. After derided preview screenings attempted to re-cut the film, but to no avail. Critic remarked that it 'must have arrived in garbage rather than in film cans.' The songs were written by and, whose long and successful partnership was effectively terminated by their experiences working on the score. Bacharach felt that the producers were sanctioning weakened versions of his music, and he attempted to exert greater influence over what was being developed. However this led to him being banned from the editing suite.
His animosity towards David, whom he felt was inadequately supportive, destroyed their professional relationship. Bacharach's own vision of the music was later realised in his album Living Together (1974).
Lost Horizon was such a that the film subsequently gained the nickname 'Lost Investments.' Alluded to it as 'Lost Her-Reason' and famously quipped, 'I never miss a Liv Ullmann musical.' The film was selected for inclusion in the book, co-written by critic. The film is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made. However, star Peter Finch did say he enjoyed making the film. Screenplay Larry Kramer has publicly acknowledged that he is not particularly proud of his workmanlike job adapting the original film's script for this film. However, hot on the heels of Kramer's Oscar-nomination for the screenplay for, the deal he engineered for this, combined with savvy investments, made it possible for him to live the rest of his creative life free of financial worries.
In that sense, this film enabled Kramer to devote himself to the gay community activism and the writings (e.g., his ground-breaking AIDS play, ) which came later. Soundtrack In his 2013 autobiography, Burt Bacharach cites Lost Horizon as having come close to ending his musical career. He stated that taken in isolation the songs worked, but failed in the context of the film. He stated that he was eventually banned from the dubbing studios at because of his increasing criticism of how the material was being handled. Ultimately the experience caused a rift between Bacharach and lyricist Hal David, one which was never to be professionally reconciled. Of the lead actors, only, and perform their own singing. Was coached by Bacharach but was not used as a vocalist in the finished film., and were dubbed by, Jerry Whitman, and Diana Lee respectively.
Some of the children who provided the singing voices of the children of Shangri-La were Alison Freebairn-Smith, Pamelyn Ferdin (a child actress who was the original voice of Lucy Van Pelt in the Charlie Brown TV specials), Harry Blackstone, III, David Joyce and Jennifer Hicklin. The soundtrack was moderately more successful than the film, peaking at #56 on the. Commercially successful singles were issued of both the title song, performed by, and ', by, the latter being the band's last hit at the.
The song 'Things I Will Not Miss' was covered by and during recording sessions for the 1973 album Diana and Marvin. Tony Bennett recorded 'Living Together, Growing Together' and 'If I Could Go Back' for MGM/Verve. Bacharach reworked 'Living Together, Growing Together' for his 1974 album of the same name, rewriting the rather ponderous opening verse as a within the song. Songs. 'Lost Horizon' (sung by Shawn Phillips over the opening and closing credits). 'Share The Joy' (Maria).
'The World Is a Circle' (Catherine, Harry and children). ' (To Len and Company).
'I Might Frighten Her Away' (Richard and Catherine). 'The Things I Will Not Miss' (Sally and Maria). 'If I Could Go Back' (Richard). 'Where Knowledge Ends' (Faith Begins)' (Catherine).
'Reflections' (Sally). 'Question Me an Answer' (Harry and children). 'I Come to You' (Richard) Large parts of the score were deleted after the film's release.
The dance sections of ' were cut, and the master negatives lost. 'If I Could Go Back', 'Where Knowledge Ends (Faith Begins)', and 'I Come To You' were cut, but restored for the release of the film. All of the songs appear on the soundtrack LP and CD. According to the notes on the laserdisc release, Kellerman and Kennedy had a reprise of 'Living Together, Growing Together' that was also lost. DVD release On October 11, 2011, Columbia Classics, the manufacturing-on-demand unit of, released a fully restored version of the film on in, which reinstated all of the elements cut after the roadshow release. The DVD also contains supplemental features, including promos featuring producer Ross Hunter as well as the original song demos played and sung by composer Burt Bacharach. Some of these demos contain different Hal David lyrics than the final versions utilized in the film.
On December 11, 2012, Screen Archives Entertainment (Twilight Time) released an exclusive version of the film, with a 5.1 lossless soundtrack and an isolated film score. See also. References. 'Big Rental Films of 1973', Variety, 9 January 1974 p 19. Retrieved March 1, 2016. Wilson, John (2005).
The Official Razzie Movie Guide: Enjoying the Best of Hollywood's Worst. Grand Central Publishing. Caporiccio, Joe Lost Horizon CD soundtrack liner notes. Kael, Pauline Reeling (1977) Marion Boyars. Medved, Harry and (1980) Berkley. Dominic, Serene (2003) Burt Bacharach: Song by Song, Music Sales Group, pp.242-3.
Musto, Michael (2008-03-27). Archived from on 2013-12-06. Retrieved 2013-12-03. Wilson, John (2005). The Official Razzie Movie Guide: Enjoying the Best of Hollywood's Worst. Grand Central Publishing. (Interview).
Retrieved 2013-12-03. Bacharach, Burt (2012) Anyone Who Had A Heart, HarperCollins, p. 154. Bacharach, Burt (2012) Anyone Who Had A Heart, HarperCollins, p. 156.
Dominic, Serene (2003). Music Sales Group. External links.
on. information about the book, movie, and real life Shangri-Las. Modern critical commentary on the film.
I don’t know how much paid and Hal David to write the music for “Lost Horizon,” but whatever it was, it was a too much. Not that the movie would have been better if the music were better; no, the movie is awful on its own. But the music is really bad. About two hours into the movie, has a birthday party and they sing “Happy Birthday” to him. That’s the one you’ll come out humming. The movie is a remake of the 1937 Ronald Colman classic, which was fun because it maintained its sense of humor.
I mean, how seriously can you take this stuff? The story involves a group of political and social refugees whose airplane is mysteriously hijacked and taken to Shangri-La. There they discover a civilization where nobody ever gets tired, nobody ever grows old, there’s gold in every stream and the coolies have not yet been organized by Cesar Chavez.
The movie more or less follows the earlier version, with a few twists. For example, the prostitute in the 1937 movie has now become a Newsweek correspondent. What I don’t understand is why the remake had to be a musical in the first place. Just a nice, quiet new version of the good old story would have been enough, The material is so slight it can hardly bear the weight of music, and it sinks altogether during a series of the most incompetent and clumsy dance numbers I’ve ever seen. There’s one production number, for example, in which the people of Shangri-la celebrate the solidarity of the family.
A young man (symbolic of a young man) and a young woman (symbolic of a young woman) solemnly hand a baby back and forth in order to symbolize how neither one holds the baby all the time. Meanwhile, several other young men twirl orange scarves. I mention this particular number because, if you go to the movie, I want you to look out for it. You wouldn’t want to spend all that money and miss the worst single piece of choreography you’ve ever seen in your life. The dancers march about and twirl their scarves as if Leni Reifenstahl’s “” had somehow been gotten pregnant by Busby Berkeley. Meanwhile, several love affairs get under way.
See, the people of Shangri-La, are sort of happy that the strangers have arrived, since some of them have been waiting 80 years for their first love affairs. Good thing you don’t age in Shangri-la. Anyhow, falls in love with, falls in love with, falls in love with and Bobby Van teaches the children of the valley how to dance (God knows the valley could use a good choreographer). These pairings are celebrated by Bacharach-David songs that I absolutely cannot remember. Between songs, the Shangri-La philosophy is unveiled.
In the valley, you see, if you love a woman more than her lover does-why, you just cleave her to your side. And the lover understands. But If HE loves her more than YOU do, he gets to keep her. You see how fair it is, especially for the woman, who is relieved of the bother of choice.
On the other hand (as that guy in the back row used to shout in Cold War jokes), what about the workers? Well, they’re happy, too.
Hal David
They get to carry water and do odd jobs, work in their field, that sort of thing. On holidays they get to twirl their scarves. Don’t worry about them; they’re happy. They get a new bucket and a new scarf every Bastille Day.
Burt Bacharach
We have a saying in the valley that I hope you’ll remember. It goes like this: When the strong wind bends the mighty tree, the tree stands all the straighter when the wind stops blowing. Remember that; it’ll be on the final.