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17 March 1973 (USA)
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This retelling of the classic tale of James Hilton's Utopian lost world plays out uneasily amid musical production numbers and Bacharach pop music...
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Eleven Gay Historical Figures Worthy of the "Milk" Treatment
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Peter Finch | ... | Richard Conway | |
| Liv Ullmann | ... | Catherine | |
| Sally Kellerman | ... | Sally Hughes | |
| George Kennedy | ... | Sam Cornelius | |
| Michael York | ... | George Conway | |
| Olivia Hussey | ... | Maria | |
| Bobby Van | ... | Harry Lovett | |
| James Shigeta | ... | Lenn's brother | |
| Charles Boyer | ... | The High Lama | |
| John Gielgud | ... | Chang | |
| Kent Smith | ... | Bill Fergunson | |
| John Van Dreelen | ... | Dr. Verden | |
| Larry Duran | ... | Asian pilot | |
| Miiko Taka | ... | Nurse | |
| Tybee Brascia |
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150 min (original release)
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Color (Metrocolor)
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2.20 : 1 more
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70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) |
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Touring back-up singer and session-vocalist Jerry Whitman, who provided the singing voice for Peter Finch, was under obligation not to reveal his vocal participation. "They didn't want me capitalizing on it or putting out a press release," Whitman now says. "But the movie turned out to be such a bomb, I don't think anyone would care if I talk about it now."
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Miscellaneous: The library at Shangri-La is supposed to be a repository for the world's great literature. There is a number of "Readers Digest Condensed Books" on its shelves.
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You are more beautiful than the women of Thailand; more feminine that the women of France; more pliable than the women of Japan; more -
Maria: Stop, stop. I don't want to hear about all these other women. What I want to hear is that you won't leave me.
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Maria: Stop, stop. I don't want to hear about all these other women. What I want to hear is that you won't leave me.
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Version of Lost Horizon (1937)
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LIVING TOGETHER, GROWING TOGETHER
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I was 19 or 20, years old at the time and living in Salt Lake City, Utah and I still remember the new dome theater, called the century 21. Layback chairs that rocked and a new sound system, large screen and huge open space between the screen and the packed theater. We felt all the excitement of a new preview screening of a film. Ta da da daa da ta da dada dada... I can still hear the opening music ringing trumpet and the crash of cymbals. I loved the interplay of characters and the filmed vistas. I know Peter Finch and Luv and Sally had some trouble with the lip-sink but hey, this was a feel good, go feel better about things film! What I regret is the way they cut the meaningful heart out of it, showed the cut version and then called it a flop. I saw the cut version and I can see it lost its view of the vision it had in the preview edition. Yes I wince a bit at Peter's effort to make love through music but, you know I didn't see it that way when I left the theater. when they surveyed us as we left I regret any comment I made that may have altered the original. I liked it then and still see it while I listen to the music on my LP. Most of my family has heard me sing much of the sound track and I can use the films monologues in our games of "what movie is this". I wish a director's cut on DVD was available. It is available on VHS but its not quite the same. I would particularly like a full serious lord of the rings style commentary about its origins, struggles and triumphs. Picky people should leave things well enough alone. Bring it back!!!!