Lost Horizon (1937 film) Quotes

Lost Horizon (1937 film) is a television show that debuted in 1970 . Lost Horizon completed its run in 1970.

It features Frank Capra as producer, Dimitri Tiomkin in charge of musical score, and Joseph Walker (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

Lost Horizon (1937 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Lost Horizon (1937 film) is 132 minutes long. Lost Horizon (1937 film) is distributed by Columbia Pictures.

The cast includes: Sam Jaffe as High Lama, Ronald Colman as Robert Conway, Hugh Buckler as Lord Gainsford, H. B. Warner as Chang, Thomas Mitchell as Barnard, John Howard as George Conway, and Isabel Jewell as Gloria.

Lost Horizon (1937 film) Quotes

Ronald Colman as Robert Conway

• (Ronald Colman) "George, didn't you ever want to know what's on the other side of the mountain?"

• (Ronald Colman) "Mr. Chang, if you don't mind, I think I'll go on being amazed; in moderation go course --"

• (Ronald Colman) "You know, when we were on that plane, I was fascinated by the way the shadow followed us. That silly shadow. Racing along over mountains and valleys, covering ten times the distance of the plane, and yet always there to greet us -- with outstretched arms when we landed. And I've been thinking that, somehow, you're that plane, and I'm that silly shadow. That all my life I've been rushing up and down hills, leaping rivers, crashing over obstacles, never dreaming that one day that beautiful thing in flight would land on this earth and into my arms."

• (Ronald Colman) "I think I'm going to like it here."

• (Ronald Colman) "Did you make that report out yet?"
• (John Howard) "Yes, Bob."
• (Ronald Colman) "Did you say we saved ninety white people?"
• (John Howard) "Yes."
• (Ronald Colman) "Good. Hooray for us. Ha-ha. Did you say that we left ten thousand natives down there to be annihilated? No. No, you wouldn't say that."
• (Ronald Colman) "They don't count."

Hugh Buckler as Lord Gainsford

• (Hugh Buckler) "Yes. Yes, I believe it. I believe it, because I want to believe it."

• (Hugh Buckler) "Gentlemen, I give you a toast. Here's my hope that Robert Conway will find his Shangri-La. Here's my hope that we all find our Shangri-La."

H. B. Warner as Chang

• (H. B. Warner) "There is a tribe of porters some 500 miles from here. That is our only contact with the outside world. Every now and again, depending on favorable weather of course, they make the journey."
• (John Howard) "How do we get in touch with them?"
• (H. B. Warner) "Well, in that respect, you are exceedingly fortunate. We are expecting a shipment from them almost any time now."
• (Thomas Mitchell) "Just want to do mean by, almost any time now?"
• (H. B. Warner) "Well, we've been expecting this particular shipment for the past two years --"

• (H. B. Warner) "Age is a limit we impose upon ourselves. You know, each time you Westerners celebrate your birthday, you build another fence around your minds."

• (H. B. Warner) "It is very common here to live to a very ripe old age. Climate, diet; the mountain water you might say. But we like to believe it's the absence of struggle in the way we live. In your countries, on the other hand, how often do you hear the expression, "He worried himself to death," or "This thing or that killed him"?"
• (Ronald Colman) "Oh, very often."
• (H. B. Warner) "And very true. Your lives are, as a rule, shorter. Not so much by natural death, as by indirect suicide."

• (H. B. Warner) "You shouldn't be looking at the bottom of the mountain. Why don't you try looking up at the top, some time."

• (H. B. Warner) "We rule with moderate strictness and in return we are satisfied with moderate obedience. As a result, our people are moderately honest, moderately chaste and, somewhat more than, moderately happy."

Thomas Mitchell as Barnard

• (Thomas Mitchell) "Good morning, Lovey."
• (Alexander P. 'Lovey' Lovett) "I beg pardon?"
• (Thomas Mitchell) "I say, good morning, Lovey."
• (Alexander P. 'Lovey' Lovett) "Good morning. Look here, young man, I didn't care for sister last night and I don't like Lovey this morning. My name is Lovett, Alexander P."

• (Thomas Mitchell) "How 'bout you, Lovey? Come on, let's you and I play a game of honeymoon bridge."
• (Alexander P. 'Lovey' Lovett) "Oh, I'm thinking."
• (Thomas Mitchell) "Thinking? What about some double solitaire?"
• (Alexander P. 'Lovey' Lovett) "As a matter of fact, I'm very good at double solitaire."
• (Thomas Mitchell) "No kidding."
• (Alexander P. 'Lovey' Lovett) "Yes."
• (Thomas Mitchell) "Then, I'm your man. Come on, toots."

• (Alexander P. 'Lovey' Lovett) "Well I, I just feel as though I'm being made ready for the executioner."
• (Thomas Mitchell) "Yeah, well if this be execution, lead me to it."
• (Alexander P. 'Lovey' Lovett) "That's what they do with cattle, just before the slaughter."

Sam Jaffe as High Lama

• (Sam Jaffe) "It is the entire meaning and purpose of Shangri-La. It came to me in a vision, long, long ago. I saw all the nations strengthening, not in wisdom, but in the vulgar passions and the will to destroy. I saw the machine power multiplying, until a single weaponed man might match a whole army. I foresaw a time when man, exalting in the technique of murder, would rage so hotly over the world, that every book, every treasure, would be doomed to destruction. This vision was so vivid and so moving, that I determined to gather together all things of beauty and of culture that I could, and preserve them here, against the doom toward which the world is rushing. Look at the world today. Is there anything more pitiful? What madness there is. What blindness. What unintelligent leadership. A scurrying mass of bewildered humanity, crashing headlong against each other, propelled by an orgy of greed and brutality. A time must come my friend, when this orgy will spend itself. When brutality and the lust for power must perish by its own sword. Against that time, is why I avoided death, and am here. And why you were brought here. For when that day comes, the world must begin to look for a new life. And it is our hope that they may find it here. For here, we shall be with their books and their music, and a way of life based on one simple rule: Be Kind. When that day comes, it is our hope that the brotherly love of Shangri-La will spread throughout the world. Yes, my son; When the strong have devoured each other, the Christian ethic may at last be fulfilled and the meek shall inherit the earth."
• (Ronald Colman) "I understand you father."

• (Sam Jaffe) "I wanted to meet the Conway who in one of his books said: "There are moments in every mans life, when he glimpses the eternal". That Conway seemed to belong here."

John Howard as George Conway

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Isabel Jewell as Gloria

• (Isabel Jewell) "You'd better take some of those squealing men with you first. They might faint on you. I'll wait."

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