Lost Horizon

novel by Hilton

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Lost Horizon radio showRonald Colman in Lost Horizon, a radio adaptation on November 27, 1946, of the motion picture for the series Academy Award Theater.

Lost Horizon, novel by James Hilton, published in 1933. Hugh Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic service, finds inner peace, love, and a sense of purpose in Shangri-La, a utopian lamasery high in the Himalayas in Tibet.

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