He flies out with the last four evacuees, bound for Shanghai. The evacuation is organized by writer, soldier, and diplomat Robert Conway, before he is to return to Britain to become its new Foreign Secretary. In 1935, a revolutionary uprising drives terrified Westerners to the airport in Baskul, China. In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The serious financial crisis it created for Columbia Pictures damaged the partnership between Capra and studio head Harry Cohn, as well as the friendship between Capra and Riskin. The film exceeded its original budget by more than $776,000 and took five years to earn back its cost. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1933 novel of the same name by James Hilton. Lost Horizon is a 1937 American adventure drama fantasy film directed by Frank Capra.
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