Lost Horizon

Frank Capra (director)
James Hilton (novel)
Alfredo Valente (photographer)
Robert Riskin (screenwriter)
Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton (starring)

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1936. Vintage double weight press portrait photograph of Frank Capra, by photographer Alfredo Valente, to promote the 1937 film. Mimeo snipe, stamp of photographer Alfredo Valente, filing stamp with annotations in manuscript pencil, dated "6-25-36," and "Kenneth G. Lawrence" stamp, all on the verso.

Based on the 1933 novel by James Hilton. Remade in 1973 as a musical, directed by Charles Jarrott, and starring Peter Finch and Liv Ullmann. A British diplomat and his entourage crash in the Himalayas, are rescued and taken to the mystical valley of Shangri-La.

Shot on location in Griffith Park, Ojai, Palms Springs, Victorville, and Sherwood Forest, California.

8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear and crease in top right margin, else Near Fine.

National Film Registry.


[Book #150710]