Tired Old Queen at the Movies: Lost Horizon

Poster by James Montgomery Flagg, who also did the famous
1917 recruiting poster of Uncle Sam saying "I Want YOU"

Steve Hayes reviews the marvelous 1937 classic, one of your Head Trucker's favorites:

Ronald Coleman and a party of kidnapped refugees from a war torn country find themselves crash landed in the Himalayas, rescued and taken to a hidden valley called Shangri-la in Frank Capra's classic LOST HORIZON. Taken from the novel by James Hilton, the story deals with a man who discovers paradise and doesn't know whether to give himself over to it or battle his way back to a civilization from which he was relieved to have escaped in the first place. Coleman was at his romantic best in this film and Capra, having just won an Oscar, never attempted such a visionary film again. Lost footage has been salvaged and somewhat restored from the original print and the result is a remarkable film with a subtlety and spirituality all its own. You'll be moved and mesmerized by the hauntingly beautiful LOST HORIZON.

Ingenue Jane Wyatt is most famous, of course, for her later role as Margaret Anderson, the mother in Father Knows Best; and after that as Spock's mom on Star Trek.