Category: Adventure
All Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Release Year: 1937
Country: USA
Runtime: 97
Rating: 6.7 (0)
Languages: English, Mandarin
Director: Frank Capra
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Millions to make it ! . . . Two years in production ! . . . The best seller that set a new style in romance floods the screen with splendor and drama surpassing Frank Capras greatest past achievements. "Mr Deeds" and "It Happened One Night".

At Last ! . . . The Masterpiece Of Americas Foremost Film Genius Blazes To The Screen !

Frank Capras Mightiest Production

Mightiest of all motion pictures!

Frank Capras greatest production!

Mightiest entertainment in all screen history!

Writing by: James Hilton - (novel)
Robert Riskin - (screenplay) and
Sidney Buchman - (screenplay) uncredited

Produced by: Frank Capra - producer
Harry Cohn - executive producer (uncredited)

Cast: Ronald Colman - Robert Bob Conway
Jane Wyatt - Sondra Bizet
Edward Everett Horton - Alexander P. Lovey Lovett
John Howard - George Conway
Thomas Mitchell - Henry Barnard
Margo - Maria
Isabel Jewell - Gloria Stone
H.B. Warner - Chang
Sam Jaffe - High Lama
Hall Johnson Choir - Choir
Norman Ainsley - Steward (Club) (uncredited)

Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
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Plot Outline: A plane crash delivers a group of people to the secluded land of Shangri-La -- but is it the miraculous utopia it appears to be?
Plot: British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
At the very end of the credits, after the copyright notice, there is a scene showing Gabriela driving a car, with Eduardo, playing the tape she recorded with Pauls voice saying her name after his death.

Goofs: We know about 5 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Factual errors: When Bob, George and Maria are leaving Shangri-La, they pass to the right of a Tibetan stupa. As per religious custom (then and now), they should always walk to the left of the Stupa, and never to the right. It could be argued that they did so out of ignorance, but Sandra is chasing after Bob and commits the same error. Surely she has been in Tibet long enough to know of this ancient custom and would never make such a careless spiritual mistake.

Trivia: There are 17 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Frank Capras first cut of the film ran for 6 hours. The first public preview took place in Santa Barbara when the film ran for 3 1/2 hours. Re-shooting and re-cutting followed immediately after this disastrous preview.
• Its budget was $1.5 million and the film ultimately cost almost twice as much as that, a sum significantly higher than most of Columbias other output combined.
• Columbia first handed over the tattered original film negative to the American Film Institute in 1970.

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