Lost Horizon

Ross Hunter's Musical Production of Lost Horizon. Music by Burt Bacharach. Lyrics by Hal David. This paperback includes sheet music for all music numbers. Also includes many photos of film scenes, short bios on each of the main actors, the producer and director, and production notes. As modernized by Larry Kramer from the Hilton novel, "Lost Horizon" tells the dramatic adventures of a noted British diplomat who attempts to evacuate a small group of people from a revolution in Southern Asia and unwittingly leads them into a kidnapping, a plane crash and a trek through stormswept Himalayan mountains to the mystical, magical Valley of the Blue Moon and the lamasery of Shangri-La, where the art, the culture and the accumulated knowledge of the world are treasured against the day when an all out war will destroy civilization. Main actors: Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Sally Kellerman, George Kennedy, Michael York, Olivia Hussey, Bobby Van, James Shigeta, Charles Boyer, John Gielgud.