Line #2 Trivia/LostHorizon


1	!!In General:
2	* ReferencedBy: ''VideoGame/DragonQuestXI'' contains a location called Angri-La: it is a monastery on a mountain, which teaches martial arts.
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4	!!The 1937 film:
5	* DeletedScene: Originally there was an opening prologue in which a weary Creator/RonaldColman on a cruise ship is prompted to tell his amazing story of the land of Shangri-La. Although alluded to in the closing passages of the film, no footage of this prologue has ever been found. Frank Capra claimed he burned it.
6	* FakeBrit: Ohio-born John Howard doesn't [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent even really attempt an accent]] as George Conway.
7	* MissingEpisode: The film had a running time of 132 minutes in its first release. When restored in 1973, only 125 minutes of film could be found, but they did have the entire soundtrack. The restored version shows publicity photos and stills in place of the missing film elements.
8	* TheOtherMarty: Almost happened to Sam Jaffe. Columbia's Harry Cohn hated his performance as the High Lama and pushed Capra to screen test Walter Connolly as a replacement. Everyone agreed Connolly's test wasn't very good, so Cohn just had Jaffe reshoot his scenes.
9	* TouristBump:
10	** Shangri-La and what it represents — longing for a faraway place of beauty, spiritual replenishment, and supernatural longevity — stuck around. When Tibet realized that heavy logging of their old-growth forests was causing disastrous floods, they turned to tourism, found that it paid really well, and renovated a village, renaming it Shangri-La.
11	** A millionaire in Denver loved the 1937 film so much he [[https://paradiseleased.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/shangri-la-has-been-found-its-in-denver/ built a house that was a replica]] of the Shangri-La lamasery. It's still there (on Shangri-La Drive).
12	* ThrowItIn: Everett Horton improvised the scene when he is startled by the mirror in the lacquer box when Creator/FrankCapra asked him to suggest some business for that scene.
13	* TroubledProduction: A notable early example. At just over a million dollars, it was the most expensive film Columbia had produced up to that point. Exercising his power as one of the first recipients of the AuteurLicense, Frank Capra put the film overbudget and overschedule, with lots of location filming (a rarity at the time) and multiple cameras running. His initial cut was six hours (with early talk of splitting it into two parts), then a three-and-a-half-hour cut was previewed but bombed horribly with the audience. Capra shot new scenes and did further cutting, but the studio took it away and did the final cut themselves. The film needed several years to recoup its budget, and this isn't even getting into the later cuts and restorations.
14	* UnderageCasting: Obviously, anyone playing the High Lama is going to be about a couple centuries too young for the role, but in the 1937 version Sam Jaffe was only in his 40s and required heavy makeup. Frank Capra tried to cast two different older actors, but they both died before filming.
15	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
16	** Capra wanted to do the film in color, but it was deemed too expensive.
17	** The first cut of the film was six hours long. The studio considered releasing it in two parts, but eventually decided the idea was impractical.
18	** Creator/RitaHayworth tested for Maria and Creator/DavidNiven tested for George Conway.
19	** Creator/JeanArthur and Creator/BarbaraStanwyck turned down the role of Sondra Bizet.
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21	!!The 1973 film:
22	* AllStarCast: No real A-list names, but a combination of prominent veteran actors (Creator/CharlesBoyer, Creator/JohnGielgud) and familiar faces from big films in the years leading up to this film (Peter Finch, Creator/GeorgeKennedy, Creator/MichaelYork, Creator/LivUllmann, Creator/SallyKellerman, Creator/OliviaHussey, Creator/JamesShigeta).
23	* BoxOfficeBomb: An iconic flop of its era. Despite a $12 million budget and a massive amount of hype, it only raked in $3 million, leading to the industry nickname ''Lost Investment''. This is also seen as the film that put the coffin in the ground for the post-''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'' "epic movie musical" trend (as opposed to a straight-up GenreKiller).
24	* BreakawayPopHit: "Living Together, Growing Together", via The Fifth Dimension's CoverVersion.
25	* CreatorBacklash:
26	** Along with Larry Kramer, Burt Bacharach doesn't look back on this too fondly, feeling that the film had some good songs but the rest of the film was so poorly handled that people just didn't care enough about the story or the characters for the songs to work.
27	** Subverted in Peter Finch's case, as he enjoyed working on the film.
28	* CreatorKiller:
29	** After a successful run in the previous two decades, producer Ross Hunter never made another feature film after this, and spent the last few years of his career in TV.
30	** It also effectively ended the songwriting partnership of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, as the stress of working on the film led some long-simmering tensions between the two to finally boil over. They still had success writing with other partners after it, however.
31	** Charles Jarrott's stock as a director was hurt pretty significantly, that by the end of the decade he left Hollywood and moved to Canada.
32	* TheDanza: Sally Kellerman as Sally Hughes.
33	* HeAlsoDid: The screenplay was by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Kramer Larry Kramer]]. The same Larry Kramer who became a prominent playwright and LGBT activist. It's an OldShame for him, but since he got paid upfront for the film before it flopped, he made a huge amount of money and became financially secure enough to pursue his other interests.
34	* HideYourPregnancy: Creator/OliviaHussey tried to do this, but it's still quite obvious.
35	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Due in part to its "all-time turkey" status, for a long time the only easy way to see it was via late night TV airings, since it was never released on VHS and the only home video release was on {{UsefulNotes/LaserDisc}} in TheNineties. Finally it reached DVD in 2011 and Blu-Ray a year after that.
36	* NonSingingVoice: Everyone was dubbed except Sally Kellerman, Bobby Van, and Creator/JamesShigeta.
37	* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/MichaelYork playing JerkAss George Conway. York was mostly playing nice-guy roles at the time, such as Brian Roberts in Cabaret.
38	* StarDerailingRole: Downplayed for Liv Ullman; while not her first English-language or even American film, Ross Hunter intended to firmly launch her as an A-list star in Hollywood with this one, but it didn't take. However, her international success continued unabated. In fact, no one's acting career was completely sunk by this movie's failure, even as it was a CreatorKiller for Hunter.
39	* UnderageCasting: Charles Boyer was in his 70s, so he was closer to the mark as the High Lama than Sam Jaffe.
40	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
41	** Creator/JulieAndrews, Creator/JeanArthur, and Creator/BarbaraStanwyck turned down the role of the teacher.
42	** Creator/RichardBurton turned down the role of Richard Conway.
43	** Producer Ross Hunter offered the role of Chang to Creator/ToshiroMifune, but he turned it down.

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