Lost Horizon by James Hilton

[Immortal4life]

Lost Horizon by James Hilton

 

The movie Lost Horizon from 1937-

Frank Capra (1937) Lost Horizon- part 1

Frank Capra (1937) Lost Horizon- part 2

 

Re-make from 1973-

 

Has anyone read the book? Although it is written as fiction it's based on reality and things that surely either the author or someone he knew had really seen.

http://www.sfsite.co...rag/hilton.html

Conway is among four kidnap victims, the others being Mallinson, his young assistant who is anxious to get back to civilization, Barnard, a brash American, and Miss Brinklow, an evangelist. Conway himself rounds out the group as an established diplomat and stoic. When the plane crashes in the Kuen-Lun Mountains, the quartet is rescued and taken to the hidden lamasery of Shangri-La.

Edited January 13, 2013 by Immortal4life

[Mal]

Have not read the book (or even seen the movie) but got a Project Gutenberg link Lost Horizon

[Immortal4life]

Cool

[GrandmasterP]

Shangri-La" has become a byword for a mythical utopia, a permanently happy land, isolated from the world. After the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, when the fact that the bombers had flown from an aircraft carrier remained highly classified, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt told the press facetiously that they had taken off from Shangri-La. The Navy subsequently gave that name to an aircraft carrier, and Roosevelt named his Maryland presidential retreat "Shangri-La". Later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower renamed the retreat Camp David after his grandson, the name by which it is known today.

(Wiki)

 

Not a lot of people know that Camp David was formerly called Shangri-La.

Hilton was a hack author and Lost Horizon is reputedly the first 'pulp' paperback ever published. He also wrote Goodbye Mr Chips.

Hilton wrote fiction.

His sources are speculated on Wiki and elsewhere but the book and the film are fictive ( not real).

Edited January 13, 2013 by GrandmasterP