Lost Horizon is a 1973 musical film directed by Charles Jarrott and starring Peter Finch, John Gielgud, Liv Ullmann, Michael York, Sally Kellerman, Bobby Van, George Kennedy, Olivia Hussey, James Shigeta and Charles Boyer. The film is a remake of Frank Capra's well-beloved film of the same name. This one has a screenplay by Larry Kramer. Kramer has publicly acknowledged that he's not particularly proud of his workmanlike job adapting the original film-script for this musical remake.

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  • Lost Horizon is a 1973 musical film directed by Charles Jarrott and starring Peter Finch, John Gielgud, Liv Ullmann, Michael York, Sally Kellerman, Bobby Van, George Kennedy, Olivia Hussey, James Shigeta and Charles Boyer. The film is a remake of Frank Capra's well-beloved film of the same name. This one has a screenplay by Larry Kramer. Kramer has publicly acknowledged that he's not particularly proud of his workmanlike job adapting the original film-script for this musical remake. However, hot on the heels of Kramer's Oscar-nomination for the screenplay for Women in Love, 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 (eg. , his ground-breaking AIDS play, The Normal Heart) which came later. Both the 1937 film and this musical remake had their story from James Hilton's novel. However, this 1973 musical version was a critical and commercial failure. It is considered one of the last in a string of box office musical failures which came in the wake of the success of The Sound of Music. Attempts to update the idea of Shangri-La with its racial inequalities intact, coupled with old-fashioned songs effectively sealed its fate. Pauline Kael noted that Shangri-La was depicted as: a middle-class geriatric utopia [where]... you can live indefinitely, lounging and puttering about for hundreds of years... the Orientals 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 Columbia Pictures re-cut the film, but to no avail. Critic John Simon remarked that it "must have arrived in garbage rather than in film cans". The songs were written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, whose long partnership hit rocky ground within months of this film's release. The film was such a poor performer at the box office that it was nicknamed "Lost Investment. " In a motif similar to the use of Technicolor in The Wizard of Oz, the film only becomes a musical in the central Shangri-La sequence, with the framing 'civilization' sequences played as straight drama. The film was not available on video for years until Pioneer Entertainment released a reconstructed version of the longer cut on laserdisc. Steven Spielberg plucked a snippet from this film of a DC-3 flying over a mountain range and incorporated it into a travel montage within his Raiders of the Lost Ark.
  • Lost Horizon is een Amerikaanse musicalfilm uit 1973, geregisseerd door Charles Jarrott. Hoofdrollen worden vertolkt door Peter Finch, John Gielgud, Liv Ullmann, Michael York, Sally Kellerman, Bobby Van, George Kennedy, Olivia Hussey, James Shigeta en Charles Boyer. De film is een remake van Frank Capra's gelijknamige film uit 1937. Net als die film is het verhaal gebaseerd op de roman van James Hilton.
  • Lost Horizon é um filme estadunidense de 1973, dos gêneros aventura e musical, dirigido por Charles Jarrott e baseado em romance de James Hilton com o mesmo nome. Canções de Burt Bacharach e Hal David.
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  • Lost Horizon is a 1973 musical film directed by Charles Jarrott and starring Peter Finch, John Gielgud, Liv Ullmann, Michael York, Sally Kellerman, Bobby Van, George Kennedy, Olivia Hussey, James Shigeta and Charles Boyer. The film is a remake of Frank Capra's well-beloved film of the same name. This one has a screenplay by Larry Kramer. Kramer has publicly acknowledged that he's not particularly proud of his workmanlike job adapting the original film-script for this musical remake.
  • Lost Horizon is een Amerikaanse musicalfilm uit 1973, geregisseerd door Charles Jarrott. Hoofdrollen worden vertolkt door Peter Finch, John Gielgud, Liv Ullmann, Michael York, Sally Kellerman, Bobby Van, George Kennedy, Olivia Hussey, James Shigeta en Charles Boyer. De film is een remake van Frank Capra's gelijknamige film uit 1937. Net als die film is het verhaal gebaseerd op de roman van James Hilton.
  • Lost Horizon é um filme estadunidense de 1973, dos gêneros aventura e musical, dirigido por Charles Jarrott e baseado em romance de James Hilton com o mesmo nome. Canções de Burt Bacharach e Hal David.
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