Director : Frank Capra
Release Date : 1 September 1937 (USA)
Genre : Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Cast : (Credited cast) , Ronald Colman as Robert ‘Bob’ Conway, Jane Wyatt as Sondra Bizet, Edward Everett Horton as Alexander P. ‘Lovey’ Lovett, John Howard as George Conway, Thomas Mitchell as Henry Barnard, Margo as Maria, Isabel Jewell as Gloria Stone, H.B. Warner as Chang, Sam Jaffe as High Lama, Hall Johnson Choir as Choir
Plot : A plane catastrophe delivers a head of kinsfolk to the isolated homestead of Shangri-La — however is it the delightful utopia it gives the impression to be?
Run Time : West Germany:97 min | 132 min (original version) | Finland:128 min (restored version) | USA:95 min (TV version) | USA:118 min (general release version)
Country : USA
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Language : English | Mandarin
Filming Locations : Bronson Caves, Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA
Company : Columbia Pictures Corporation
Trivia : Many scenes were view at the Los Angeles Ice along with Cold Storage Warehouse where Capra passed through 13,000 square feet of refrigerated place at his disposal. Nearly four miles of ammonia piping cooled the soundstage. Cinematographer Joseph Walker well-versed loads of drawbacks inside this locality since the tremendous chilly started static electrical energy which bruised his movie stock.
Goofs : Crew or fittings visible: Camera shadow on Henry’s aid moment on the plane, whilst he turns aid to his seat.
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Plot Summary : British diplomat Robert Conway plus a miniature assortment of civilians disaster homestead inside the Himalayas, plus are rescued by the personalities of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains loves the real world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la grants a seductive break out for the motive that the world-weary Conway.
On 10 March 1935, the pacifist British diplomat with about to happen Foreign Secretary Robert Conway helps a variety of ninety Westerns ashen people in general to break out take entertaining in the Chinese city of Baskul beyond the kicking off of a revolution. He vegetation the airport inside the closing plane in addition to his male relative George, the geologist Alexander P. Lovett, the dated cad trader Henry Barnard with the revolting with bitter Gloria Stone. However, the plane is skyjacked with crashes inside a distant district inside Tibet. When they labor under no still anticipate of surviving, they are rescued with took to the utopistic bliss Shangri-La, a quiet with plentiful zone without illness, battle or any form of dispute. Their originally emotion is that they are prisoners save for along the days, each survivor cherish with has no design to exit the zone with the exception of George that endeavors to prove to the assortment to exit Shangri-la.
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