The DC3 of a group of travellers is hijacked while fleeing a bloody revolution. The aeroplane crash lands in an unexplored area of the Himalayas, where the party is rescued and taken to the See more

• Peter Finch as Richard Conway
• Liv Ullmann as Catherine
• Sally Kellerman as Sally Hughes
• George Kennedy as … See more

Unusually for a musical film, songs do not feature throughout. As generally released, the film runs for around two hours and fifteen minutes: the first song sung by a cast member, "Share the Joy", appears over 40 minutes in, and the final number, "I Come to You", … See more

Background
Ross Hunter made his name producing remakes at Universal, including Magnificent Obsession and Imitation of Life. Lost Horizon had previously been adapted onstage as Shangri-La in 1956. See more

Lost Horizon is considered one of the last of several box-office musical failures of the late 1960s and early 1970s as well as the last musical film to be given the roadshow release, which came in the wake of the success of The Sound of Music. Attempts to update the idea … See more

The film was one of the most popular movies at the British box office in 1973. See more

On October 11, 2011, Columbia Classics, the manufacturing-on-demand unit of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, released a fully restored DVD, which reinstated all of the elements cut after the roadshow release. The DVD also contains supplemental … See more