Editing Lost Horizon (1937 film) (section)

==Later reissues and remakes==
In 1942, the film was re-released as ''The Lost Horizon of Shangri-La''. A lengthy drunken speech delivered by Robert Conway, in which he cynically mocks war and diplomacy, had already been deleted in the general release version. Capra felt the film made no sense without the scene,<ref name=McBride/> and in later years film critic [[Leslie Halliwell]] described the missing 12 minutes as "vital".<ref>Halliwell 1982, pp. 180–183.</ref> They were restored years later.

In 1952, a 92-minute version of the film was released. It aimed to play down features of the utopia that suggested [[Communism|communist]] ideals, a sensitive point after a civil war in China resulted in the ascension of [[Mao Zedong]]'s Communist Party in that country in 1949.

In 1973, the [[American Film Institute|AFI]] initiated a restoration of the film. The project was undertaken by the [[UCLA Film and Television Archive]] (under the supervision of Robert Gitt) and Columbia Pictures and took 13 years to complete. Although all 132 minutes of the original soundtrack were recovered, only 125 minutes of film could be found, so the seven minutes of [[Lost film|missing film footage]] were replaced with a combination of publicity photos of the actors in costume taken during filming and still frames depicting the missing scenes.<ref name=NYT /><ref>{{cite news|title=Restoration Revives 'Lost Horizon'|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1986/08/21/restoration-revives-lost-lost-horizon/|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|access-date=29 November 2013}}</ref>

Also in 1973, Columbia Pictures produced a [[Lost Horizon (1973 film)|modernized musical remake]] directed by [[Charles Jarrott]] and starring [[Peter Finch]] and [[Liv Ullmann]]. The film featured a score by [[Burt Bacharach]] and [[Hal David]].  It was both a critical and financial disaster.<ref name=NYT /> It came at the end of an era of expensive musical films ushered in by the huge success, in turn, of ''[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]]'', ''[[My Fair Lady (film)|My Fair Lady]]'', and ''[[The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]''.