The original length of LOST HORIZON was 3 1/2 hours.
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@janeaustinadmirer16 жыл бұрын
I am so glad that they tried a second showing of Frank Capra's "Lost Horizon". Can you imagine what we all could have lost? This film is a classic.
@SempraLaura5 жыл бұрын
My dad showed me this movie when I was a little girl. I love it to this very day.
@XX-gy7ue6 жыл бұрын
it's one of the greatest movies ever made ! - from one of the most beautiful books ever written !
@ariag.8745 Жыл бұрын
I couldn't agree more. After 50 years of watching cinema it is still my favorite movie of all time. And truly one of the most spiritually profound movies ever made. It's absolutely wonderful.
@CaptApril123 Жыл бұрын
I love the movie, didn't realize it was from a book. I'll have to look that up and read it.
@garyacker73882 жыл бұрын
I love this book, I have a copy printed in 1934 it's one of my mothers favorites and she gave it to me.
@tadimaggio4 жыл бұрын
It's amazing how variations of this experience run through the history of both film and theater. When Stephen Sondheim, and the other members of the cast and creative team of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", took the show on its pre-Broadway tryout tour in 1962, it laid one egg after another, in one city after another. ("We played one matinee to fifty people", Sondheim recalled later.) Finally, in desperation, he decided to write a new opening number. Up until then, the show had opened with a duet between the two young lovers, "Love Is In The Air": a charming, but low-key song. Once the rousing, vaudevillian "Comedy Tonight" was put in the opening slot -- giving Zero Mostel, who played Pseudolus, the chance to reach out and grab the audience by its collars -- the show began selling out, and was well on its way to a Broadway run of more than two years, and a shelf full of Tony awards. Sometimes a single adjustment of a work's chemistry can make all the difference.
@ChristopherScottDixon8 жыл бұрын
Wonderful to just sit in awe & listen to a legendary director & a distinguished panel close to him too.
@edcampion39983 жыл бұрын
My thoughts exactly
@pbrazor502 жыл бұрын
Yes, you can tell that the rest of the panel holds Capra in the highest esteem, and deservedly so.
@TheCarsche9 жыл бұрын
Hands down, no questions asked, one of my all-time favorite movies I've ever watched. I got an opportunity to watch it in part just last week, and oh what a joy to relive happy memories. Loved the music
@trevorgwelch74126 жыл бұрын
TheCarsche My Favourite Movie / Magic
@vickishook97152 жыл бұрын
The music from the collaboration of Burt Bacharach and Hal David made the movie, giving it all it's feeling. Bobby Van was taken from us too soon, but Liv Ullman, Sally Kellerman, Olivia Hussey and michael York are still with us.
@bt60613Ай бұрын
RIP Ms Kellerman. You’re missed.
@theesperanzacompromisebyja90443 жыл бұрын
Haunting adaptation. Both the film and the book remain classics.
@AnyoneCanSee13 жыл бұрын
3 best director Oscars and three nominations. An amazing talent and I have never seen him speak before.
@citizen11639 жыл бұрын
oh my, what a legend is Mr Frank Capra!
@robertholoiday99184 жыл бұрын
Saw this in Grade 10 . 1980 English. This movie has had a profound impact on my life .
@vickishook97152 жыл бұрын
Me too. Very little else has touched my intellect as this movie did. It was as if fate sat me down and said, "watch this, it's true".
@KENZOWAL12 жыл бұрын
I first saw this magnificent film when I was about 10 on LA television. I was enthralled. Since that day (I'm 60 now) I've wanted to be Conway (Ronald Colman) and go to Shrangri-La. When I saw that the high lama (Jaffe) was 200 years old, I was blown away. Got my first whiff of Spirituality from this film & sense it more strongly each time I see it. Saw a fully-restored print at the Stanford Theatre in Palo alto (2011). It was even more meaningful and beautiful. There's no other film like it.
@moonriverdiver7 жыл бұрын
Hope you have the Columbia dvd {see below).
@trevorgwelch74126 жыл бұрын
KENZOWAL I’m 60 also , it does exist but maybe on another planet listen to Corey Goode on You Tube Please
@vickishook97152 жыл бұрын
I believe it does exist on this planet. Inner earth. I'm 62 also, and when I was a young adult in college in California I was lead to this movie. It's as if the cosmos sat me down an said, "watch this, it's true". I have never been the same.
@tadimaggio4 жыл бұрын
James Hilton's novel is a small masterpiece, much of which couldn't be filmed in 1937. (For one thing, the character Maria in the film, played by Margo, is an elegant, refined Chinese woman named Lo-Tsen in the novel. But of course, in 1937, this ruled her out as the love interest of a white man). It's undeniably eerie that, in a novel written in 1931, a cataclysmic world war in the near future is foretold by the High Lama.
@williamsnyder56163 жыл бұрын
It s interesting you should bring up the inter-racial love angle. In 1933, Capra madde a truly beautiful film called "The Bitter Tea of General Yen," which featured a love story between a white Missionary (Barbara Stanwyck) and a Chinese general (Nls Asther). Capra had made a whole string of hits for Columbia before this film. However, it was banned in the British Empire and ended up losing money.
@tadimaggio3 жыл бұрын
@@williamsnyder5616 You're absolutely right; "The Bitter Tea of General Yen" is a fascinating film. Among its many virtues is the presence of Barbara Stanwyck, who, even at that early date in her career, was a talent to be reckoned with. I am quite certain that the only reason it got made at all is that the Production Code went into effect that year, and it slipped through at the last second. "King Kong", which also came out in 1933, was also a last-second beneficiary of that timing: MANY scenes in it were cut and not seen for many years (fortunately they weren't destroyed), including the woman hurled to her death from her apartment, and Kong taking part of Ann's clothing off, and then sniffing his fingers! It's fascinating that the interracial romance in the novel "Lost Horizon" didn't lead to it being banned anywhere that I know of. (Could this have anything to do with the fact that Lo-Tsen never speaks in the novel?). America's hangup on this subject persisted for many years. In 1956, Ingrid Bergman in "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness" had to be given the strapping German Curt Jurgens as a love interest; in real life, and in the book "The Small Woman" on which the film was based, the man was Chinese.
@williamsnyder56163 жыл бұрын
@@tadimaggio I can tell you're a real film buff. Good details. Stanwyck's rise to fame was amazing. She apparently had bombed initially at Warners when her husband talked Capra into giving her a try for a film called "The Miracle Woman." It was based on a Broadway play called "Bless You Sister" which Robert Riskin had written before Harry Cohn recruited him for Hollywood. It had tones of Sinclair Lewis' "Elmer Gantry." I think its on KZfaq if you haven't seen it, as is one she did for Lionel Barrymore (as a director!) called "Ten Cents a Dance."
@tadimaggio3 жыл бұрын
@@williamsnyder5616 Thanks so much for the heads-up on "The Miracle Woman"; I've been trying to see it for years, and was never able to run it to ground. It's based on the life of Aimee Semple MacPherson, a female evangelist (or should I say "sheep shearer"?) in the 1920s. (It is precisely BECAUSE I am a Christian that I am disgusted by those who don't know the difference between being a man or a woman of God on the one hand, and a carnival barker on the other). You and I are definitely of one mind on the subject of Barbara Stanwyck. As much as I admire Bette Davis, I've always thought that the title of "Greatest Hollywood Actress Of The Golden Age" properly belongs to Stanwyck. She could take material that was pure tear-jerker melodrama ("Stella Dallas"), and make you FEEL a mother's pain and devotion through it, as if it were "Anna Karenina". She could freeze your blood with a portrayal of evil ("Double Indemnity"), and then split your sides with rollicking comedy ("Ball of Fire"). And, it should be added, she was apparently a lovely human being in real life; the crews she worked with adored her (she always learned their names, and their families'). Frank Capra once said: "If there were a contest for Most Popular Person In Hollywood, Barbara would win in a landslide every year." Which makes the Academy's failure to ever award her a competitive Oscar all the more baffling.
@CaptApril123 Жыл бұрын
@@williamsnyder5616 I was not aware of that movie.. i'll have to dig it out
@ryanellis44744 жыл бұрын
Utterly wholesome and brilliant.
@jonathanmoynihan36619 жыл бұрын
I watched this movie in the Marquesas Islands after a 25 day sail from Hawaii. Another boat gave me the film a month after we settled into one of the remote villages in Nuku Hiva. The movie had a profound impact on me in such an epic location. I love this film.
@vickishook97152 жыл бұрын
This movie shook me to the core as a young adult. In the same year, I read Voyage of the Dove about Robin Lee Graham and my life was changed forever.
@yohannbiimu14 жыл бұрын
"Burn the First Two Reels" is a title of a chapter in Capra's autobiography...it's written MUCH better than he tells it here.
@Buster2511 жыл бұрын
My father, Eddie Hall also worked on the film. my mother told me that he had done stunt work down at the Los Angeles Ice House in downtown Los Angeles. Dad was also friends with and stand in for Edward Everett Horton, whom was friends with my dad until his death in 1963. I think EEH mentored my dad who did bit player work until 1948. Iften wordered what work my dad did on LH,wonder if he made it to the film that was discradrd. Now-a-days, such film would NEVER be destroyed--just filed away.
@myguitardetective5961 Жыл бұрын
Edward Everett Horton didn't have a stunt double on Lost Horizon; however, he did have a lighting double...so that was quite possible.
@williamsnyder56167 жыл бұрын
"Lost Horizon" was an interesting film in the history of Columbia Pictures, in that while it initially lost money for the studio, it, nevertheless, proved that Columbia had the ability to make an expensive spectacle. Before LH, the studio was thought of---for the most part---as home to either comedies or inexpensive contemporary films. But "Lost Horizon" was an expensive film---budgeted at over $2M with a top-line notable cast, elaborate Oscar-winning sets and superb film editing. Capra even coaxed Cohn to borrow probably the top composer of the day, Max Steiner, from Warners just to conduct Dimitri Tiomkin's score. Eventually in re-release, LH turned a profit, but it nearly doomed a great studio in its infancy.
@stephenstephen15055 жыл бұрын
A great director and a great movie. I would love to see the original
@tuxguys8 жыл бұрын
George Burns (paraphrasing): "Your audience always lets you know what works and what doesn't." Look at the panel at 5:27... Peter Bogdanovich, Mel Brooks, and I think that the guy on the far left is Robert Altman, all listening to Frank Capra... THIS is the way late-night talk used to be.
@rosewoodfretboard8 жыл бұрын
You are so right. Late-night television is simply a vehicle for promoting the latest in American schlock-fest cinema, buoyed by an interminable list of "stars" who appeal today's most coveted demographic: anyone who finds themselves "culturally aware" within the last five seconds, but no longer than eight seconds after that. No one has patience anymore for anything that can't be satisfied by the "I want it ... yesterday" mentality. But that's progress for you. Heh. And they say people like us are out of touch.
@LibraryUser6113 жыл бұрын
The DVD of the restored Lost Horizon has a special feature that goes into some detail about the two reels that Capra destroyed. It was a framing story, making most of the movie a flashback. But it portrayed the main character (Conway, played by Coleman) as dazed and weak, making the audience less interested in him. So goes the commentary in the DVD, at least. The DVD also has an interesting commentary track for the main feature.
@moonriverdiver7 жыл бұрын
Yes a great DVD by Columbia. I wish Trump would watch Lost Horizon. Its theme - that competition and global aggression is the road to ruin - more relevant than ever. I can't think of a film that better combines thrilling action sequences and spectacular scenery with great characterisations articulating a crucial moral philosophy. The only thing that disappointed me about the commentary track was some impatience with the dialogue expounding that message. One for the ages but phew a close call.
@margarethsantos2398 Жыл бұрын
I love This movie...
@stelthy1003 жыл бұрын
It was one of the greatest films ever made in my humble opinion
@Kurtlane14 жыл бұрын
Has anyone seen Frank Capra interviewed by Bill Moyers about "Why we fight"? It's one of the best interviews I've ever seen.
@ebsenraptzski95224 жыл бұрын
great director
@robcat20756 жыл бұрын
Definitely tanned and rested, Capra is.
@MegaMesozoic2 жыл бұрын
To me, that reception in Santa Barbara says more about the inhabitants of Santa Barbara than the film!
@bt60613Ай бұрын
D. Cavett was an terrific interviewer
@trevorgwelch74126 жыл бұрын
A Real Genius of The Silver Screen
@jimrick6632 Жыл бұрын
IT WAS RELEASED WITH DELETED SCENES ON DVD YEARS LATER....FANTASTIC FILM.....
@carolleenkelmann47513 жыл бұрын
"Santa Barbara snobs".. Must remember that for when I visit LA.
@opentrunk5 жыл бұрын
I'm generally not at all a fan Capra's movies but Lost Horizon is a huge exception.
@g.andrewmaness77423 жыл бұрын
Makes sense that you'd feel that way: It's a huge departure from most of his other stuff.
@SeattlePioneerАй бұрын
Just as a reminder---- The Lost Horizon movie begins with the drama of a revolution taking place, with chaos in China on display. Very dramatic and engrossing.
@michaelmereday67912 жыл бұрын
My all-time favorite movie
@TheJoyfulEye Жыл бұрын
something similar in Moss Hart's "Act One" about his first play
@MightyQuinn202111 жыл бұрын
Wow, so many great directors on one couch
@Kendell0625 жыл бұрын
Lost Horizon in tied with Random Harvest for second as my favorite Ronald Colman movie. The movie in first is The Prisoner of Zenda ,but if they find some more lost footage for Lost Horizon and restored it and put it on Blu Ray it could move up.
@LivingLifeInTheCommunity Жыл бұрын
"Did you just say ___/______/_____?"
@theolamp53127 жыл бұрын
I wish those 1st 2 reels still existed, so I could judge for myself. I also wish all of the film Greed by Erich Von Stroheim still existed. But, the USA was never great at preserving its' cinema heritage.
@liushuyu70512 жыл бұрын
oh my huaking lord I want to see the 3 1/2 hours so badly!!!
@EJP286CRSKW7 жыл бұрын
This story is much disputed. See Joseph McBride 's book. The truth seems to be that SIX reels were cut, some of the opening moved to the end, some reshooting occurred, and a general tightening up. The part about incinerating the nitrate negative is particularly disputed. Makes a good story.
@leavingitblank93636 жыл бұрын
And isn't that what movie makers are all about? A good story? (It also is suspicious that it worked out so perfectly that it was exactly two reels that could be hacked just like that with no harm to the story. Surely the movie was reviewed again, a decision make to cut out the "forestory", and it was edited appropriately. But told that way isn't nearly as entertaining.)
@robertchurch76296 жыл бұрын
I don't believe it, and its odd he would say that
@lemurlover79756 жыл бұрын
I can't wait to see this 1937 version ;) lol that is a very long movie... 3.5 hours
@AkhoyaAl-Andalusi2 жыл бұрын
Lost Horizon IS MY CLOUD 9
@janicejohnson77615 жыл бұрын
The Name Above the Title.
@cranky1chick14 жыл бұрын
@youvebeenthunderstru Good point, but just look at the guests! Bogdanovich, Altman, Capra.....could you possibly even get that many great directors today on a single talk show actually talking? Not pimping movies, just actually talking about their work?
@63bplumb5 жыл бұрын
Opinions are like backsides everyone has one--Yes Tallulah said that but just a little differently. I like the ending that he was forced to put on the film Not the one that has been restored to the end of the film.
@kiwitrainguy Жыл бұрын
Tallulah also said "Anyone can be glamorous, all they have to do is stand still and look stupid".
@d.diablo38327 ай бұрын
Who other than Dick and Frank and Rob Reiner were also in this video?
@lonewolfattack80716 жыл бұрын
This interview is a load of hogwash. In reality, Capra was so upset over Harry Cohn's recutting of the picture that he sued Columbia over it. And the lawsuit was over the original cut they put out, never mind the later ones that were even shorter and had reshot title cards. As for said cut that Robert Gitt has been trying to put back together for what seems like five decades now (it's good to have low goals, since it's impossible to restore Capra's director's cut), who even knows what it actually was. He claims it was 132 minutes because that's the soundtrack he found. But Variety reviewed it on March 10, 1937 -- from the first week it was in release at the Globe in NYC, only the fourth theater in the U.S. to open it -- and gave the runtime as 125 minutes. They had a tendency to round down, but not 7 minutes down. Were the two scenes they can't find the picture elements of ever even to shown to audiences beyond the test screenings in California?
@williamsnyder56166 жыл бұрын
One wonders sometimes the level of truth as an old man gets older. Capra was angry about Cohn re-cutting LH, but that wasn't the only reason Capra sued Cohn and Columbia...at least according to Capra'a book, "The Name Above the Title." Capra says he was going to Russia to interview Sergei Eisenstein when he stopped off at Columbia's London office to chat with friends. While looking over the studio's books, he noticed an ad for a Columbia film called "If You Only Cook," a comedy advertised as "a Frank Capra production," but a film Capra had nothing to do with. So, Capra sued in London, but couldn't get anywhere with it. He brought suit in the U.S. and claims he had Cohn over a barrel until Cohn agreed to get the great Broadway play,"You Can't Take It With You" for Capra. Now, that's what Capra claims.
@williamsnyder56166 жыл бұрын
..."If You Could Only Cook" was the title...
@richpaul68535 жыл бұрын
There is some truth to what Capra says. The original cut contained a lot of expository scenes that were probably not capturing the audience’s attention. Capra decided to chuck them in favor of starting the film where people are being evacuated by plane. This was far more exciting and effective at hooking the audience into the story. The first cut of any feature is much longer than the release version. It’s possible Lost Horizon started out well over two hours. But I doubt it was 3 & 1/2 hour’s as Capra claims. I knew Gene Milford who was one of the film editors on the picture. Yes, Cohn ordered it cut down, but only after it had played first run in select theaters. Once it went citywide, and after Cohn looked at the poor box office receipts realizing it was going to lose money, he had around ten minutes removed. The movie really never did earn its $3 million-dollar production cost plus another $175,000 for prints and advertising. As for Capra being blacklisted, that’s utter crap. Capra went right from Lost Horizon to You Can’t Take it With You (Oscar winner for Best Picture & Best Director) then right onto the hugely successful Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, both for Columbia Pictures. Capra then went to Warner Brothers to make Meet John Doe which he co-produced through his own production company. After that he worked for the government making propaganda shorts during WW II. After the war ended, Capra resumed feature directing with such classics as It’s a Wonderful Life and State of the Union. The 1950s di
@myguitardetective5961 Жыл бұрын
The film was released at 132 minutes (and it remains so today on DVD and Blu-Ray). As for the 125 minute running time? That's what we have left today; so, the missing scenes w/ Lovett and Bernard in the Valley, Isabel Jewell sick in her room talking to Chang before the 1st dinner scene in the lamasery and a few other bits were taken out in the 1st few weeks in 4 markets...that's why you have that 125 running time. Now, the complete 14 reels of picture and 14 reels of sound made it to Europe and that's why they've found bits in England and France. I still hold out hope that the complete 132 minute version will turn up...
@chrisstone607810 жыл бұрын
I wonder what he would of thought of the remake.
@The-F.R.E.E.-J.11 ай бұрын
What year, please?
@ScrapNfight6 жыл бұрын
I prefer the 1973 remake to the Capra version, which I also like, but I think the remake was more entertaining and the characters better defined.
@tonygodfrey78132 жыл бұрын
Opposite!!. We dislike the 1973 version. And preferred the Original Frank Capra Version.
@ScrapNfight2 жыл бұрын
@@tonygodfrey7813 nah, the musical is much more fun
@franknberry63972 жыл бұрын
The remake with music was considered one of the worst movies ever and a huge flop. The original is an absolute classic.
@lothorienthegrey15 жыл бұрын
subtitled this in spanish, please.
@1madDogz13 жыл бұрын
zomg NEVER! burn a movie.
@dabearcub11 жыл бұрын
Bet your grandpa had some cool stories...
@lopeen553 жыл бұрын
Whos here after tik tok
@alexcampbell30323 жыл бұрын
How'd you get here from tik tok?
@robertchurch76296 жыл бұрын
The book is a better story. He added two characters to his story, and they were more comical (silly) than the books characters. I don't believe he threw out two reels. Who does that? Colombia would've had the rights to them., after so much invested in the film, and after shooting, editing etc. no. Very odd interview.
@RSEFX4 жыл бұрын
I've got a feeling he may have only been referring to the work print. Maybe it was just for the sake of catharsis he would've done something like that. But I doubt he would even have had easy access to destroying the negative. He is telling the "public story", which, as per many such professionals, are often greatly simplified for the sake of brevity/for the sake of the public's attention span, to spare them all of the minutia of "long-winded" insiders' level of detail.
@nondescript2892 Жыл бұрын
Great filmmaker but a very hurried and badly nervous talker...and of course he knew what was in those first two reels...but in those days before dvd's and the internet a lot of hokum stories could be peddled on talk shows without anyone questioning anything..