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It is astounding that LOST HORIZON was given this type of blu-ray treatment when so many other films are just released with little else but the film on the blu-ray. The only footage really left for fans of this movie is the 90 minute MERV GRIFFIN show of the premiere at the Mann's National in...

Haineshisway, I played the isolated music track for a bunch of 19 years olds who only listen to rap artists and todays recording stars and they loved it. Concerning MAME, not that Warners would have any interest but those songs of Lucy's could be fixed with auto tunes.

I don't know anyone else who was in the running for the Finch part in LH. Nobody was happy with Lucy hijacking Mame, but then when you think about, just about everyone had a crack at playing the part on stage. What I was talking about is applicable to any film with a main lead or central...

I was talking about the lead actors as it pertains to holding the piece together. The Star sets the tone for the film and the entire company, maybe even more so than the director. Both Lost Horizon and Mame have star parts. Peter Finch and Lucille Ball are in practically every frame of their...

Lost Horizon is just plain fun, beautiful to look at and listen to. Where Lost Horizon DOES become great? It's in the blu-ray. It's the isolated music track on this blu-ray. That's where the film is genius. I often wondered what the film would have been with Bacharach just doing the instrumental...

It's true, Sony did a full restoration of this film in 1998 in which I was apart of and feel somewhat responsible for making happen. There were several final prints struct after the restoration. One of which made the rounds here in Los Angeles at various film venues at Christmas for many years...

Interesting review http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/59121/lost-horizon-1973/

The first 40 minutes of the musical Lost Horizon is for the most part better than it is in the original. After the plane crashes I like the Capra version mainly due to the fact that it was filmed in a big freezer and looks really authentic. The trek into Shangri-La is visually nice in the...

I'm done arguing with you Bruce. You and I disagree on practically everything except AFI and the Bacharach score. Let's leave it at that. Suffice to say you act as if your word is THE word. Well, I'm here to tell you, your wrooooooooooonggg. Peace out.

Bruce, I never made homophobic comments on any board towards you or anyone else. I said fans of the movie MAME are primarily Lucy fans and gay men. Hardly homophobic. I was responding to people who come to boards primarily to trash a film for no other reason but to be cynical. Frankly, I...

haineshisway, or Bruce Kimmel, Excuse me, but I have better things to do with my time than spending it going to sites of movies I don't like just for the sake of trashing and putting them down. I don't dwell in the negative like that. Frankly, I don't have the time. I'm far too busy.

Lost Horizon is an entertaining film. To those who say, "it's not a good film". It's not good to THEM. They, nor anyone else hold the monopoly on what ones perception should or should not be concerning ANY film.

I never linked the two. Yes, LIVING TOGETHER, GROWING TOGETHER is very CLEOPATRA

LOST HORIZON is a finely produced and lavish film. It is a good film. Just because it's different doesn't mean it's not good. Lost Horizon made money overseas. It's not the global failure people think it is. I find it interesting how there are people who want to come to a blu-ray review post...

There probably isn't a dramatic musical made where someone can't point something out that seems awkward or out of place. Even films like WEST SIDE STORY, MY FAIR LADY and THE SOUND OF MUSIC have their awkward moments. Lost Horizon is beautiful to look at in Blu-Ray. Intense detail within the...

Jim did not appreciate the sound of Burt Bacharach.

YEAH on LOST HORIZON. One of my ALL time favorite quirky musicals

uh, in case you haven't noticed Bob Cashill, this thread is about Lost Horizon or at least it was the last time I looked

Again Michael 1, why even comment on this thread if hate it so much?? There's a word for that.

I think it's trite to call LOST HORIZON a bad movie. There is frankly too much talent involved for it to be dismissed. Robert Surtees, Preston Ames, Jean Louis, Mike Frankovich, Burt Bacharach, Ross Hunter, Liv Ullmann, John Gielgud, Charles Boyer, Peter Finch, James Hilton, Charles...

GREASE got it's share of bad reviews too. I'll take LOST HORIZON over GREASE any day and for all time. I don't care how much more money it made or WHO went to see it.

Saturday Night Fever only comes alive in it's musical sequences. It certainly isn't all that "hitting the hair" business. It's sequel, STAYING ALIVE is really a good bad film. LOST HORIZON was a 70mm blow up that played in the same theaters that ran 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY...

With all due respect, GREASE is junky. A teen comedy musical with 30 year olds acting like their in high school. LOST HORIZON is far more professional, prestigious and important film. It was the no.1 project that year at Columbia.

Louis Letizia, LOST HORIZON played in Westwood and in most big cities for over 3 months in it's initial run. And Lost Horizon is too expensive and prestigious a production to be a bad film. A quirky oddity perhaps, but far from a "bad film". Also, whatever gave you the idea that THANK GOD...

ahollis, "what the film really is" ?? That will always be a matter of perception. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRl5g1935b4&feature=share

JoeCaps, I've been around actors most of my life and know many of them. I acted for many years myself. I think I'm a good judge. We often change our feelings when it comes to our work. Very often we'll say we dislike a film or play we've done for any number of reasons. Actors are not...

Joe Cap, it just could have been she was having a bad day. I wouldn't read that much into it. Michael1, Lost Horizon is fun. "Appalling" is way too dramatic a word to use in describing a harmless well intentioned musical. Lost Horizon is a distinguished film exquisitely directed...

Rob, you should have said something to her. I'm sure she would have appreciated it. Joe, that was a long, long, long time ago. You might have misread her reaction. She might have been in a bad mood that day or she might have resented being interrupted while eating. Her feelings back...

Very cool GMpasqua, did you see her at Vitello's? I've been meaning to go. Been years since I've seen her perform. I saw her once at the Backlot and during her act she did mention LOST HORIZON but in a joking way. She said she had been in one of the most expensive disasters ever made...

Dan Woodruff who was curator and archivist at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for over 20 years lived with George Cukor for a time. He told me the BORN IN A TRUNK number in A Star is Born was shot after filming rapped and George left the picture. The powers that be felt the...