Capra’s Lost Horizon
I recently caught up with Frank Capra’s 1937 film The Lost Horizon. The heroine — Jane Wyatt — reminded me of Maggie Gyllenhaal and the opening credit sequence reminded me of this CBS news clip from 1975. Wyatt is quoted in her wikipedia entry saying
“During the war, they cut out all the pacifist parts of the film—the High Lama talking about peace in the world. All that was cut because they were trying to inspire those G.I.’s to get out there and go ‘bang! bang! bang!’ which sort of ruined the film.”
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