5/29/2023 0 Comments Last horizon movieMany miles from yesterday before you reach tommorow where the time is always just today. Where the winter wind will never blow and living things have room to grow.Īnd the sound of guns does not pound in your ears.anymore. Have you ever dreamed of a place, far away from it all? Where the air you breathe is soft and clean and children play in fields of green.Īnd the sound of guns, does not pound in your ears. Have you ever dreamed of a place, far away fro m it all? Especially the theme from the movie, Lost Horizon, sung by Shawn Phillips. The Burt Bacharach musical score is phemonenal. Each person on this journey learns valueable lessons about their lives and how to continue their lives in peace and harmony with others and nature. ![]() ![]() Several natives in the area guide them to an idyllic place where people live for more than 100 years and more. The plane crashes in a remote area in the Himalayan Mountains. Richard Conway, a peace loving political activist and several others from all walks of life get hijacked during one of Conway's peace missions in the far east. ![]() Does it really exist? Let the viewer decide. This is one of my favorite movies of all time! A journey to a place called Shangri La. Not often.just enough to wonder what they see the rest of us don't. Weird thing is, I keep running into people who just LOVE it. The mistakes just keep mounting from there. The art direction came off cheap.reminds me of an episode of FANTASY ISLAND. (This DVD has it back in.)Ĭasting was well intentioned, but fell flat. The fertility dance turned out so WEIRD that it was cut for release.crowds laughed too much. I don't know WHY they changed Lovett from an academic to a song and dance man. Burt Bacharach and Hal David were just about ready to split up when they got the scoring job, and the soundtrack reflects it. By the time this was made, Hollywood didn't make good cheap musicals anymore. The mistakes started from the original idea of remaking a beloved classic into a musical. They goofed, but it doesn't make them bad people. But remember that people TRIED with this, but were unsuccessful. This is important you can learn almost as much by a mistake as a masterpiece. Almost every decision that could be made for this turned out to be wrong. Okay, so if you DON'T like it? Well, this thing is nearly mandatory if you are into film. The movie itself bombed so badly it was never released on DVD until now, and barely released at all back in the VHS days. The transfer is in widescreen, it's been cleaned up very nicely, and you get some very cool extras. if you have been humming the soundtrack since you saw this in high school, this is a godsend. Read full reviewĪ formerly lost movie you should see, maybe not for the reasons you think What a joy to see in in re-mastered DVD form as the color and setting take you into a world of fantasy if but for a brief time. I think that I treasure this movie as much as I do any other. My wife and I delight in this movie as we have for some 30 years of its life. When you mix in kids in several numbers, there is a freshness that I think is equal to many productions that I have seen that employ children. I have seen every Rogers and Hammerstein and while not as good production-wise, the music of this movie stays with you for days which by the way is the success of any Broadway musical.Ĭhoreography is cute. ![]() Bobby Van was a comic relief and a darn good dancer.īurt Bacharach and Hal David scored this musical (not quite a movie)and the tunes are catchy and lyrics great. I have seen Charles Boyer many times and never ceases to impress. Sally Kellerman a delight as a dancer and an actress was my favorite. George Kennedy, good for B parts, definitely not right. Two miscasts that I would have changed: Peter Finch, an excellent British actor for military parts, an unh-unh for this one. If I see Liv Ullmann once, I want to see her a thousand times. Many there are that say the movie was a flop, but I can tell you that I have seen many a flop, but this is not so. Take time to listen to the clever orchestration in numbers.
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