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I have loved this film and the James Hilton recent upon which it is based since I was a child. “Lost Horizon” is one of the truly immense moviegoing experiences. I consider we all want to possess in Shangri-La, a paradise which brings out the best in mortals, offering a chance of redemption.
The film has a tall cast: Ronald Colman (what a stammer!), fair Jane Wyatt, Thomas Mitchell, H.B. Warner, Edward Everett Horton, Sam Jaffe and the almost forgotten (but very qualified) Isabel Jewell – she also appeared with Colman in “A Narrative of Two Cities.”
The space produce has to be seen to be truly appreciated. Shangri-La is a prime example of Art Deco at it’s most dazzling.
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The film, as it exists today, is a bit like Frankenstein’s monster, stitched together from a wide variety of sources, some of them in better condition than others. The account of the quarter-century restoration of the film is a intelligent example of the dedication to peek a project through to it’s completion.
The only complaint I have about the film, and it’s a minor one, is about the number of expository sequences in the film. It seems that one character or another is always talking about what has gone on or what is going on. H.B. Warner’s character, in particular, seems to exist for the most portion to justify the backstory of Shangri-La. But that’s, as I said, a minor complaint. This is a expedient motion narrate.
LOST HORIZON is a very special and very philosophical movie based on the James Hilton modern. The movie makes a few changes from the book, but in many ways the film actually improves on the recent, not the least of which is having the gigantic Ronald Colman flesh out the share of Robert Conway. It’s not Colman’s most memorable performance (contemplate Story OF TWO CITIES for that) but he wears the section like a comfortable suit. Supporting him are some other big players like Edward Everett Horton, Thomas Mitchell, Sam Jaffe and Isabel Jewell to name a few. What would YOUR reaction be when you examine that the commandeered airplane that took you to a mysterious, dazzling land in the middle of the icy Himalayas was not an accident, but a idea? The lost world of Shangri-La is something different to everyone, and it’s not always a land of bliss and happiness as you’ll notice. The film itself has gone through many difficult years, and the painstaking reconstruction (sometimes down to serene frames with audio) receives a attractive presentation on DVD. It’s the restoration and the extras that accomplish the disc worth viewing. A brief portion shows how some frames were restored, and we gather to perceive some rare pristine footage of the funeral procession. A superb feature commentary and documentary are also included. Overall, then, it’s a sparkling film and a graceful DVD supplying fair extras. What’s not comely? Well, it’s only comely to comment on the extremely variable quality of the image (as I said, it’s a combination of several decent prints, some 16mm prints and the occasional still-frame fragment) . That’s not the fault of Columbia, as it is most likely the best they could do. But upon comparison to my VHS tape of the restored film, I was surprised to gawk that the quality is only *slightly* better, not dramatically better. That’s why I say in all fairness that it’s really the extras that execute it worthwhile, but that’s coming from someone who already had a video copy of the restored film in his collection. If you’ve never seen the film, I recommend it unreservedly.
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