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PlotWith the Japanese invasion of China, a group of Western civilians flee aboard a plane. Moments before they take off, the pilot is chloroformed and someone else takes their place and flies off, heading in the opposite direction. The plane then loses one engine and crashlands in the mountains of Tibet. There the group are found by monks and taken to the monastery of Shangri-La where they are welcomed by its people.

The monastery is situated in a valley among the mountains where freak weather conditions allow it to exist as a luxuriant paradise. In Shangri-La, they learn that freed from the worries of civilisation that everybody lives in perfect peace, that there is no illness and they can be guaranteed lives of more than two hundred years – the only requirement being that they never leave the valley.

Frank Capra’s (1937), based on James Hilton’s 1933 novel, is one of the great Hollywood kitsch classics. The original is a somewhat dated effort when seen today but back in the 1930s, coming just at the end of the Great Depression, the film’s fantasy of a place in the world where one can escape from all the stresses of life and live forever held an undeniable appeal for audiences.This Lost Horizon remake was mounted as a musical by producer Ross Hunter. However, the remake ended up being a flop of epic magnitude – it even gets a listing as one of the Medved Brothers’ The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (1977). Ross Hunter had gained a reasonable reputation as a producer, having been responsible for hits like the various Tammy films, Imitation of Life (1959), Pillow Talk (1959) and Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967). Just prior to taking on Lost Horizon, Hunter had produced the massively successful Airport (1970), which became the second top-earning film of its year – and incidentally created the 1970s genre of the disaster movie.

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The measure of the flop that Lost Horizon was can be seen in that despite a worthy career and a number of hits, afterwards Hunter could only find sporadic employment in television. The Westerners in Shangri-La – (l to r) George Kennedy, Bobby Van, Olivia Hussey, Liv Ullman and Peter FinchThe musical had reached a peak in the previous decade with enormous hits like West Side Story (1961), My Fair Lady (1964), The Sound of Music (1965) and (1967). However, a few years later, attempts to copy these successes had resulted in a heap of bloated, over-budgeted box-office flops, including the likes of (1968), (1968), Star! (1968), Hello Dolly (1969), (1970), (1974), At Long Last Love (1975) and (1976).Among these, Lost Horizon was regarded as the turkey of the bunch that fairly much killed the musical off for good.