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What novel was Frank Capra’s Lost Horizon based on?
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(From left) Unidentified, Gary Cooper, and Frank Capra on the set of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.
Frank Capra’s 1937 film Lost Horizon was based on the 1933 novel of the same name by James Hilton. The book, titled Lost Horizon, tells the story of a British diplomat who discovers a hidden utopian paradise in the Himalayas known as Shangri-La.1234